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Residents urge lower speed limit, council asks staff to request ODOT speed study
Summary
At a Coos Bay City Council meeting, residents urged lowering the posted speed on the Highway 101 arterial through the city to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety; council asked staff to gather information and explore a speed study request to the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).
Mike Parra, a Main Street Coos Bay representative, told the Coos Bay City Council that a one-mile section of Highway 101 inside city limits has a 45 mph posted speed that he considers unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists. “I think it should be 30 miles an hour,” Parra said during public comment, citing seven intersections, two traffic signals and a string of business driveways along the segment.
Parra described a painted bike lane that “just appears and then disappears”…
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