Oregon Walks

Transportation policy education and awareness across portland metro region: educate, advocate, and bring awareness to the need for walking as a transportation, public health, and climate issue. Promote policy and infrastructure improvements to make walking safe, convenient and attractive for everyone.

82nd avenue coalition organizing: Oregon Walks is the lead organizing entity for the 82nd avenue coalition, a corridor in east portland that was transferred from the state of Oregon to the city of portland. This coalition organizing centers around transforming the street to a safer corridor, small business support, housing development, and the creation of more green spaces.

Walking programming: Oregon Walks partners with numerous organizations to host walking programming. These are events with diverse goals: physical activity with health related outcomes, community building, and/or advocacy themes. Some examples are our neighborwalks programming with aarp of Oregon, steptember walking calendar, safe routes to school and walking school bus work with various school communities, the dementia walking series with the alzheimer's association, as well as many one-off walking events in partnership with various organizations.

Oregon Walks advocates for communities that are safe, accessible, and attractive for walking. Most often, this requires significant and expensive infrastructure investments that are needed across Oregon, Oregon Walks works with local, regional, state, and federal elected officials to direct funding into more pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. Additionally, Oregon Walks advocates for policy changes that create better environments for walking, such as increased funding for transit, parking reform to increase visibility at intersections, and policies that result in slower vehicular speeds.