MIDTOWN CROSSINGS PROJECT

The Midtown Crossings Project is making travel safer for all users on four key corridors: Greenwood Avenue, Franklin Avenue, Hawthorne Avenue and Second Street.

This project will help to:

• Improve east-west travel for everyone with better connectivity.
• Improve safety for all users, including those biking, driving, walking and rolling.
• Encourage private development in the Core Area where much of Bend’s future housing and employment growth will be.

ESTIMATED TIMELINE

PUBLIC MEETINGS

Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent open houses. Your input helped shape these projects and made sure we considered all of the safety concerns you observe on a daily basis.

Open house events include options to participate both in person and online.

• August 2024 - Franklin Ave Open House – 190* 
• July 2024 - Hawthorne Overcrossing Open House – 430*
• June 2024 - Greenwood Ave and Second St Street Pre-Construction Open House – 100*
• April 2024 - Greenwood Ave Open House – 710* 

* Participant count including online and in-person.

GOALS & FUNDING

Improving the transportation system by focusing on safety is a City Council goal. Creating safer connections between neighborhoods, places of work, schools, parks and businesses, for people who ride bikes, walk or roll, is a City priority. The City is designing a variety of safer and more accessible bike and pedestrian routes throughout the community, including the Midtown Crossings project, aimed at linking the Central District to Downtown Bend.  

This project was identified by the community as a need during two large planning efforts focused on the future of Bend’s Transportation System and Core Area. It is an identified project in both the Transportation System Plan as well as the Core Area Tax Increment Finance Plan and Report. 

This project is partly funded by the 2020 Transportation General Obligation (GO) Bond.

SELECT A CROSSING BELOW

Hawthorne Structure Type Selection

• Hawthorne Structure Type Visioning Report - September 2024
• Survey and CAD files  (You will be redirected to an FTP site)

FINAL DOCUMENTS - 2022 Midtown Feasibility Study

PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTS - Further Study Needed