Portland Avenue is among the county’s most biked corridors. It connects downtown Minneapolis and north with the Interstate 494 employment corridor, Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and the southeast metro.

The project will complete a critical bicycle transportation link on Portland Avenue. It will install protected bikeways, improve facilities for pedestrians and convert a portion of the road from four to three lanes.

Portland Avenue project map (PDF)

Key features of the project

For people walking and needing accessibility features

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant ramps and sidewalk
• accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS)
• durable crosswalk markings
• countdown timers

For people on bikes

• new dedicated trail

For people using transit

• enhanced bus shelters
• enhanced wayfinding signage

Safety improvements and updates for all users

• additional dedicated turn lanes
• new traffic signal mast arms
• revised locations for traffic signals based on usage data and safety needs

Hennepin County

• Jason Staebell, project engineer
  jason.staebell@hennepin.us
  612-596-0371

City of Minneapolis

• Liz Heyman, project engineer
  liz.heyman@minneapolismn.gov
  612-673-2460

City of Richfield

• Jack Broz, project engineer
  jbroz@richfieldmn.gov
  612-861-9792

Metro Transit

• Cody Olson, community outreach coordinator
  cody.olson@metrotransit.org