The Ardenwald-Johnson Creek Neighborhood Association on Tuesday night voted 14-1 to proceed with exploration of the Johnson Creek Blvd. toll gantry pilot program that tolls traffic congestion.

Metro Councilor and Ardenwald resident Carlotta Collette proposed the idea in January, which was published on Ardenwald.org (read proposal here).

Collette discussed more on the topic at Tuesday’s Neighborhood Association meeting with discussions and feedback from NDA board members and residents.

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Milwaukie mayor, Jeremy Ferguson, responded to Ardenwald-Johnson Creek Neighborhood Associations letter composed on January 7, 2010, regarding the concerns about Johnson Creek Boulevard traffic issue (Download Mayor’s Response Letter (PDF, 25 kb)):

February 10, 2010

Dear Members of the Ardenwald NDA,

Thank you very much for your January 7 letter regarding the future of Johnson Creek Boulevard. The Milwaukie City Council has been following the various discussions that are underway about possible changes to the street due to the Portland-to-Milwaukie light rail project. Johnson Creek Boulevard is an important route, as it serves at least three Milwaukie neighborhoods and neighboring jurisdictions and businesses.

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Dear Friends and Neighbors

How many times have you said: “I wish we could just put up a toll booth on Johnson Creek Boulevard and charge everyone cutting through our neighborhood”?

Living on the boulevard, I’ve said it a lot and heard it said often as well.

Well here’s the deal: we could actually get a pilot tolling project on the boulevard if we’re interested. We will need to request it and write the conditions under which we’d accept it, but we could be the first community in the region to toll people cutting through our neighborhood if we are interested.
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If the snow dumps this winter, the City of Milwaukie crews will be out snowplowing certain streets, keeping them safe and passable.

Crews will remove snow only from primary arterials and collector streets (see map of designated snowplow routes (PDF, 496 kb), because of limited resources and staffing levels.

In Ardenwald-Johnson Creek, streets on snowplow routes are:

• S.E. 32nd Avenue
• S.E. Johnson Creek Boulevard
• S.E. 42nd Avenue (between S.E. JCB and S.E. Howe Street only)
• S.E. Tacoma Street (maintained by City of Portland).

Residents parking on the street along the designated snowplow routes are asked to park their vehicles off the street to avoid damages from the plowing.

Property owners in both Portland and Milwaukie are responsible for removing the snow piling up at driveway entrances and on sidewalks from the plowing.

Crews will also apply sand to streets or intersections located on hills, including selected smaller residential streets within the neighborhood.

Milwaukie residents with questions can contact the Milwaukie Public Works Department at (503) 786-7600.

Portland residents, contact the Portland Office of Transportation at (503) 823-5185.

Transportation chairman Michole Jensen has set up a discussion forum through Google Groups for the public to participate in the neighborhood’s transportation discussions.

The focus will start with issues regarding S.E. Johnson Creek Boulevard and the Portland-Milwaukie light rail.

Remarks should be focused and short but also comprehensive.   Anyone can start a discussion in the forum.

To join the discussion, go to the JCBNeighbors page.  You will need a Google account (GMail and Blogger account login should also work) to sign in and post a comment.

Ardenwald-Johnson Creek NDA Transportation chairman Michole Jensen’s has provided a report on October 15th’s light rail CAC meeting.  You can view his report at http://www.ardenwald.org/comm/trans/cac_091015.

A follow Tacoma Street Station light rail meeting is on Monday, October 26th, 6:30 pm at Ardenwald Elementary School.

The Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail project team will share design concepts for the Tacoma Park & Ride and Station and present traffic impact analysis at a community meeting on Monday, October 12th, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Ardenwald Elementary School cafeteria, 8950 SE 36th St. in Milwaukie.

The first half of the meeting will focus on the design concepts, and the second half will focus on presenting the traffic analysis that’s been conducted so far.

A follow up meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 26th, at 6:30 p.m. at Ardenwald Elementary to further discuss traffic issues.

Originally, Oct. 12th’s meeting was announced as a design workshop, but changed to a design concept and traffic impact analysis presentation.

Project completion is anticipated in 2015.

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