Klickitat Street
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Klickitat Street is a city street located in northeast[1] Portland, Oregon, United States. The main stem of the street is Script error: No such module "convert". long, and runs east-west parallel to—and one block south of—northeast Fremont Street, from the eastern edge of Irving Park to Northeast 67th Avenue.[2] Additional disconnected segments are east of Rocky Butte from 105th to 117th,[3] 148th to 154th,[4] and 163rd to 165th.[5] A segment named Klickitat Court is between 135th and 140th.[6]
The street is one of Portland's most heavily used bicycle throughways and was selected as one of 15 streets slated for improvement as a "next-generation bicycle boulevard" by the city of Portland.[2] Planned improvements included a flashing beacon at the intersection with NE 33rd, which can be enabled by bicyclists and pedestrians to increase safety and maintain low vehicular traffic.[7]
The street is named after a local Native American tribe, the Klickitat, and became famous as the fictional home of the characters Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby and Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby in a series of children's novels by Beverly Cleary.[8] Cleary grew up on nearby Hancock Street, and said the name reminded her of "the sound of knitting needles."[9] There are statues of the characters in the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in nearby Grant Park.[10]
The street also appears in a 2024 The Simpsons episode, "Night of the Living Wage".[3]
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