| Portland’s 2045 Transportation System Plan The Transportation System Plan (TSP) is the 20-year plan to guide transportation projects, programs, policies, and investments in Portland. 2045 TSP CAC members, staff, and guests both in-person and online smile around their Wish Wall. Community Advisory Committee (CAC) recap At their second meeting, 2045 TSP CAC members participated in an Appreciative Inquiry process and then collaborated on a Wish Wall where they grouped their wishes for Portland’s transportation system with one another’s related wishes. While staff still need to craft draft goals from the CAC’s wishes, the presentation and meeting notes are now available on the Meeting 2 webpage. The feedback contributed by the CAC will be integrated with the public feedback we receive from individuals and organizations from 7/28 – 10/1 to help shape an overall draft Vision and set of Goals for the future of Portland’s Transportation System. See below for how to contribute your own wishes for the future of Portland’s transportation system! Our 2045 TSP Vision and Goals development is using an Appreciative Inquiry process to guide us to a motivating future by identifying and amplifying what works well within our transportation system rather than just fixating on what is wrong. Now it’s your turn, Portland! We invite you to start by thinking about some of the best times you’ve had getting around Portland or related to our transportation system. Then consider what that positive experience might mean about what you deeply value. Finally, consider what it makes you wish for the future of Portland’s transportation system. Your feedback will not only directly shape the plan Vision and Goals but will serve as a reservoir of community values that staff will return to throughout the two-year process to help guide and direct the update. Your project team will report back to participants on the collective results of the survey and how all feedback was considered and integrated, as applicable. A Goal is a description of a specific outcome whose achievement contributes to realizing the vision. The project team will shape these from the collective wishes participants share with us. Here are three tips: Think high-level. If you tell us a project you want to see prioritized, we may need to infer the reason why you want to see it. We aren’t asking about specific projects in this survey, we’re asking about the impact you want to see our cumulative efforts having on the transportation system. Tell us what you want to see, not what you don’t want to see. If you tell us what you don’t want to see, we’ll need to infer what the opposite is/your intentionality. Don’t make us have to guess, just tell us what you want. Think “why” to get to the heart. Why do you want to make this wish for the transportation system? Feel free to mention your why or make your wish clearer by starting with your why. Try to be brief and clear so we can most easily code and summarize collective results. Are you ready? Tell us your three wishes for the future of Portland’s transportation system Are you a neighborhood association, business association, community-based organization, or advisory group? While individuals can take our online survey to submit their three wishes, we are asking groups that provide collective engagement and perspectives to send us a letter via email with your three wishes for the future of Portland’s transportation system. To send us a letter or email, which will also directly be included in a public involvement report, please include the following information: Name of your organization Contact information Geographic district the organization is located in and/or covers (ok if outside of Portland or serves greater geographic boundary than Portland) A mention of your organization’s mission or who is served/ represented and how many members there are in your organization and/or board Your three wishes (see tips above) Note that each wish in the survey is limited to 350 characters and we ask that your wishes also each be 350 characters or less for our analysis. Additional explanation is ok as long as each wish is 350 characters or less. Please include the above information in a letterhead Word or PDF document attached to an email to 2045TSP@portlandoregon.gov by Wednesday, October 1, 2025. |
