"PDOT builds and maintains all major arterial streets--including the streets downtown. Not neighborhood streets. So PDOT will not build your SW street in front of your home, unless you live on Capitol Highway, or Terwilliger, or Multnomah."

Wait a second.

So PDOT maintains "arterials" but not "neighborhood" streets.

But any street in downtown, or the Pearl or SoWa, is somehow declared an "arterial"?

Why is that?

Why do I pay street maintenance taxes now that I know that my street is not subject to street maintenance?

I guess I should get a tax break, because it's another subsidy I pay to SoWa and the Pearl to maintain THEIR streets, when they are supposed to be walking everywhere and using transit and NOT driving, but then they still want their precious streets and parking.

So, no, it's not the "same throughout the city". The Pearl, downtown and SoWa get better treatment, and it has now been officially confirmed by a PDOT employee.

By the way, the linked map shows a lot of arterials in Southwest that have nothing showing as improvements. (Is Barbur Boulevard going to become a city street? Because right now it's a state highway...) But a lot of streets in the SoWa are getting citywide capital spending while Cully lacks sidewalks...