Burnside is a major street in Portland, notable for dividing north Portland from south Portland. West of the Willamette River, Burnside carries tens of thousands of cars each day on its four lanes moving in both directions. A block away, Couch Street is a much narrower, two-lane one-way street and moves only a few thousand cars each day.
Portland proposes to replace Burnside’s four fast-moving lanes with two slow-moving lanes.
Portland is proposing to turn Burnside and Couch into a one-way couplet. That is, Burnside would carry eastbound traffic and Couch would carry westbound traffic.
