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Bend MPO TAC reviews funded projects: equipment, sidewalks, signals and bus‑stop upgrades
Summary
At the Bend MPO Technical Advisory Committee meeting, staff outlined MPO‑funded purchases and construction: maintenance equipment and snow‑gate attachments, a $60,000 Cooley Road sidewalk infill, ongoing street‑preservation contracts (about $4.85 million last summer), signal upgrades and a bus‑stop improvement program funded with COVID and state highway funds.
City and MPO staff on the Bend MPO Technical Advisory Committee gave an update on a range of projects funded with state highway and COVID relief dollars, saying the work is intended to support maintenance, pedestrian connections and transit access across the MPO area.
Tyler Deeke and City presenter David said the MPO helped fund maintenance equipment and winter attachments used for protected facility upkeep. "Those were COVID relief funds, $320,000," David said, and the MPO also helped purchase a mini sweeper, a Bobcat with attachments and a drop‑deck trailer to keep maintenance equipment closer to job sites.
The Cooley Road pedestrian infill project — intended to tie into a future BNSF railroad quiet crossing — is budgeted at "the sidewalk is the $60,000," David said, but staff said the timing depends on coordination with ODOT and railroad crossing work.
On preservation, David told the committee that MPO support for street preservation this past year was about $650,000 and that the overall street preservation program cost was approximately $4,850,000 last summer. "We have slurry sealed chips in paving contracts," he said, adding that pavement work also requires bringing ADA ramps into compliance.
Traffic signals identified as priorities for replacement include Franklin and Oregon avenues, both described as near or beyond their useful lives. David said staff is pursuing 30% designs and cost estimates for upgrades and cross‑section improvements that would enhance median crossings and bike facilities.
Bob, presenting on bus stops for CET, said upgrades funded with COVID relief and SHF grants covered signage and schedule holders at about 286 stops in the Bend MPO area and that roughly $160,000 remained in the current MPO budget for benches and shelters. "We've installed around 40 benches right now," he said, and seven shelters are slated for spring installation. City bond funds will be paired with MPO funds where site work or sidewalks are required.
Staff said the MPO funds are intended to stretch across multiple years as routes and stops change; some benches or shelters may be relocated when route changes occur. The committee had no formal vote on program changes and agreed to carry these updates to the next policy board meeting.
The next procedural step is the TSAP project advisory committee kickoff, scheduled for Jan. 23 at 10 a.m.; staff said that group will refine goals, public engagement plans and next analytic steps before larger contract deliverables arrive.
