If you live in the Portland Metro area, the Natural Areas, Parks and Streams measure on November's ballot (Measure 26-80) should stand out as an easy “Yes” – if approved by voters on November 7th, it will add tremendously to the Portland Metro area’s well-used greenspaces.

The $227 million bond measure will allow Metro to purchase land – from willing sellers – that provides habitat for wildlife, clean water for streams and rivers and local community access to parks.

But the BTA is backing the measure because a number of regionally significant bike and pedestrian improvements are included in the portfolio – so many that the list of planned projects reads like a Metro-area bicyclist’s wish list (four of the projects are in our Blueprint for Better Biking’s top 40 list).

New lengthy trails between Beaverton and Forest Park, southern suburbs, and Gresham and the Columbia River complement more local paths and connections.

Metro did a great job with the funds raised by their last bond measure, approved by voters in 1995. Please ask them to do it again on November 7th!

For more details, or to donate to this worthy campaign, visit www.SaveNaturalAreas.org.