Walking the Green Streets of Portland

Posted by: Tim Halbur

15 November 2009 - 7:00am

Matthew Roth of Streetsblog SF takes a tour of Portland's impressive green streets program from landscape architect David Elkin. Stormwater runoff is a major component of the program, as are new bike lane designs.

From Streetsblog:

"With nearly five hundred greenstreet facilities already in the ground, Portland has plans to add another five hundred in the next five years, greatly reducing the burden stormwater can place on its sanitation system.

Portland's greenstreet facilities often take up multiple on-street parking stalls and replace the asphalt with beds planted in native species that help absorb significant volumes of streetlevel wastewater, near 100 percent in some locations."

Full Story: Portland’s Greenstreets Program a Sterling Best Practice Model

Source: Streetsblog, November 13, 2009