Transportation | Metro
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Transportation | Metro
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Transportation is essential to our region’s quality of life and economy. Metro helps create a safe, reliable and affordable transportation system that serves everyone.
Metro is the metropolitan planning organization for the greater Portland region. This means the federal government and the State of Oregon authorize Metro to coordinate and plan transportation investments within areas of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties.
Metro collaborates with the state, tribes, cities, counties, transit agencies, and port and parks districts to plan, design and invest transportation dollars within the Portland region. This work helps ensure that our transportation system:
Provides and expands safe and convenient options for getting to work, school, shopping, entertainment and nature.
Prioritizes investments in high-travel corridors for driving, transit, biking, walking, and moving goods for commerce.
Reinvests in existing streets to make them safe for all forms of travel.
Makes restorative investments in communities that have been harmed by previous land use and transportation policies.
Reduces carbon pollution and protects clean air and water.
Regional Transportation Plan
The Regional Transportation Plan is a blueprint to guide investments for all forms of travel — driving, transit, biking and walking — and the movement of goods throughout the Portland region.
Learn more about the RTP
Major transportation investments
Metro works with partners to invest in major transportation projects that connect and improve city centers and high-travel corridors.
Learn more about major transportation projects
Tualatin Valley Highway transit and safety project
The TV Highway transit and safety project will improve safe access and transit travel time while connecting people to essential jobs, healthcare facilities, shopping and community services from downtown Beaverton to Forest Grove.
82nd Avenue transit project
Planning and design work are underway to improve access and transit travel time on 82nd Avenue while connecting people to essential jobs, education facilities, shopping and community services.
Southwest Corridor Plan
The Southwest Corridor Plan is a proposal to fund transportation improvements, including a new extension of light rail, through a 12-mile stretch of southwest greater Portland, from downtown to Tualatin.
Funding
Metro provides funding for transportation projects across the region through several mechanisms.
Regional Flexible Funding Allocation
Regional flexible funds provide federal funding for investments in sidewalks, trails and roadways in communities across the region.
Regional Travel Options program
The Regional Travel Options program creates safe, vibrant and livable communities by providing grants and supporting efforts that increase walking, biking, ride sharing, telecommuting and public transit use.
Safe streets
Metro works to ensure that everyone can get where they need to go safely.
Safe streets for all
Access and explore tools, data and strategies that support local planning and projects and improve safety on roadways in every community in our region.
Safe Routes to School
Metro’s Safe Routes to School program provides resources to support kids and teenagers to use walking, rolling and transit to access school and their community.
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Transportation is essential to our region’s quality of life and economy. Metro helps create a safe, reliable and affordable transportation system that serves everyone.
Metro is the metropolitan planning organization for the greater Portland region. This means the federal government and the State of Oregon authorize Metro to coordinate and plan transportation investments within areas of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties.
Metro collaborates with the state, tribes, cities, counties, transit agencies, and port and parks districts to plan, design and invest transportation dollars within the Portland region. This work helps ensure that our transportation system:
Provides and expands safe and convenient options for getting to work, school, shopping, entertainment and nature.
Prioritizes investments in high-travel corridors for driving, transit, biking, walking, and moving goods for commerce.
Reinvests in existing streets to make them safe for all forms of travel.
Makes restorative investments in communities that have been harmed by previous land use and transportation policies.
Reduces carbon pollution and protects clean air and water.
Regional Transportation Plan
The Regional Transportation Plan is a blueprint to guide investments for all forms of travel — driving, transit, biking and walking — and the movement of goods throughout the Portland region.
Learn more about the RTP
Major transportation investments
Metro works with partners to invest in major transportation projects that connect and improve city centers and high-travel corridors.
Learn more about major transportation projects
Tualatin Valley Highway transit and safety project
The TV Highway transit and safety project will improve safe access and transit travel time while connecting people to essential jobs, healthcare facilities, shopping and community services from downtown Beaverton to Forest Grove.
82nd Avenue transit project
Planning and design work are underway to improve access and transit travel time on 82nd Avenue while connecting people to essential jobs, education facilities, shopping and community services.
Southwest Corridor Plan
The Southwest Corridor Plan is a proposal to fund transportation improvements, including a new extension of light rail, through a 12-mile stretch of southwest greater Portland, from downtown to Tualatin.
Funding
Metro provides funding for transportation projects across the region through several mechanisms.
Regional Flexible Funding Allocation
Regional flexible funds provide federal funding for investments in sidewalks, trails and roadways in communities across the region.
Regional Travel Options program
The Regional Travel Options program creates safe, vibrant and livable communities by providing grants and supporting efforts that increase walking, biking, ride sharing, telecommuting and public transit use.
Safe streets
Metro works to ensure that everyone can get where they need to go safely.
Safe streets for all
Access and explore tools, data and strategies that support local planning and projects and improve safety on roadways in every community in our region.
Safe Routes to School
Metro’s Safe Routes to School program provides resources to support kids and teenagers to use walking, rolling and transit to access school and their community.