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There's a few awesome little alleyways in SE Portland that are so deeply pitted with potholes and bumps that you really couldn't get through them without a lift

• jcrawfordor 10y ago
  These persist primarily in areas that were annexed by the city and where the neighborhood never put up the money to form an improvement district to pave their streets. The city seems to not maintain them at all, even as gravel roads, to encourage the landowners to eventually pay up for improvements... but it hasn't really worked out.
  • posguy 10y ago
    Its definitely been hit and miss, in SE Portland you really can see which neighbors ponied up, as the city asked residents to fund part of the cost of the speed bumps added in parts of SE to reduce through traffic speed. Hence why some are literally bumps atop a bump, cause the house directly beside it paid a non-negligible portion of the cost of that there speedbump!