SWIM & MORE is a committee of SWTrails created to provide advocacy for the active transportation needs of SW Portland.
The Southwest in Motion Plan (SWIM) was a joint community/Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) effort to make walking and biking safer in our area. A group of 15 neighbors representing neighborhood as well as business, community, and religious organizations worked together for several years to arrive at a short-term, to-do list of projects to improve walking and biking conditions on our streets. The Portland City Council adopted the plan in 2019.
PBOT has built a number of SWIM projects, but obviously a lot has changed over the past five years. SWTrails thought it might be a good time to revisit our priorities and re-energize the plan.
The SWIM & More committee will:
–Review progress on completed SWIM projects
–Review progress on SWIM projects underway
–Propose projects to be considered for future funding
–Advocate for increased funding for future SWIM projects
It would help us—and PBOT—to know what you think. So SWIM&More has put together an interactive map of SWIM projects and we are asking you to let us know which ones are most important to you.
The survey is open until June 16th, 2025.
We will also do another survey in the near future asking about projects which have come up since 2019, when SWIM was passed, and are also important—the Red Electric Trail and a sidewalk on Shattuck come to mind.
April 2 Agenda
- Introductions: Name, neighborhood, major area of interest
- Prepared presentation: Maria Sipin on City Council Developments
- SWIM: Keith Liden will provide a brief update on the status of the SWIM 2025 progress report.
- Roundtable Discussion: Projects to bring forward to the City
- Project Ideas: Compiling a list of project ideas
- Next step discussion: What should our next steps be?
- Site Visits: Schedule visits to the sites over a matter of days to see first hand what the environment is and give ourselves confidence we can sort out what is most important and doable in the next 5 years.
- Presentation to PBOT: At some point we will present our work to PBOT for their comment and suggestions.
- Testimony or Presentation to the Transportation Committee of our City Council.
Check back regularly for updates. If you are interested in helping, visit our Volunteer page and fill out the contact form.