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Councilors press consultants on survey methods, pedestrian safety and funding for Main Street options
Summary
Council members asked detailed questions about survey dissemination, whether some bicycle crashes occurred on sidewalks, the safety tradeoffs of single vs. double‑lane roundabouts, buffer widths for bike lanes and potential ODOT funding programs; consultants said the survey was convenience‑based and outlined several ODOT funding avenues and typical local match rates.
During a Q&A that followed the Main Street study presentation, council members pressed presenters on methodology, crash context and funding availability.
Several council members sought clarity about the survey: Speaker 4 asked how the roughly 450 responses were disseminated and whether respondents understood what "parallel" routing meant; Speaker 5 said the survey was not scientific and could include duplicate responses. Presenters replied the communications department promoted the survey and that it was convenience‑based rather than a statistically sampled instrument; they offered to review the…
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