"[G]reat impact on this bloodline of Portland" my eye. Being able to turn west on to Greeley from Interstate is hardly essential. Look at it on a map. The same vicinity can be reached by turning onto Going, which is a much easier and much less sharp right-turn for south-bound traffic to execute.

Reduce the speed limit, you say? Why, so that the 10-15mph "no ticket" buffer gets rolled back in turn? Here's a better idea: enforce the actual speed limit, and stress that it's not arbitrary. A speed limit is the MAXIMUM speed determined for vehicles to safely travel under optimal conditions - not a suggestion, not a recommendation, not an old fogey rate, but the MAXIMUM.

As for your tale of the red-light-running cyclist: yeah, of course he/she is a careless idiot for running the light. Nobody is defending that sort of behavior. The two recent deaths and yesterday's accident on interstate were caused by motorists who failed to yield the right of way as is *required by law*. Stop trying to use an unrelated incident to color or spin recent tragedy. It's absurd.