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Bend MPO gives annual update on STBG/SHF-funded projects; several small-build projects complete, downtown signal upgrades and riverfront design remain in design
Summary
City of Bend staff told the Bend MPO Policy Board on Jan. 24 that four of seven locally awarded projects are complete, several remain in design or construction planning, and the board heard preliminary timing and funding questions for downtown signal replacements and the Deschutes River trail/riverfront design.
The Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization’s policy board heard a status update Jan. 24 on projects funded through competitive awards from Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) and State Highway Fund (SHF) allocations, including several completed bicycle and sidewalk projects and multi-stage design work on downtown signals and the riverfront trail.
Janet Ruby, City of Bend staff, told the board that “we have 7 projects we were awarded and 4 are completed,” then walked members through before-and-after images and next steps for the remaining work.
Board members and staff discussed two bundled downtown items — described in the presentation as “downtown signal upgrades and bike/ped improvements” — and whether to phase work because other projects (including a nearby Hawthorne Bridge project) could change traffic patterns. Ruby said some signal poles and heads date to the 1960s and are “operating in flash mode at night,” and that the city is trying to identify smaller, downtown-appropriate…
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