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The Neighborhood Street Safety Program (NSSP) is a program to address pedestrian and bicycle safety, safe routes to school, speeding, intersection control and crossings, and other residential street traffic safety related issues.
The program began in 2019 and 25 projects selected during the 2020 to 2025 Initial Program Phase have been constructed or are in the design/construction phase to be completed in 2024. For more information about the Initial Program Phase 2020-2025 projects click here.
Project Selection for Phase 2 (2025-2030) NSSP
Budget
The community passed a General Obligation Bond package that will fund the Neighborhood Street Safety Projects, “2025-2030 Program.”Project Criteria
- Local Residential Streets
- Safe Route To School or Safe Route To Parks
- Missing sidewalk or bikeway or crosswalk
- Arterial Crosswalk Enhancement
- Difficult crossings of an arterial or collector that cause a barrier to walk or bike for an everyday transportation need, like school, park, shopping, or getting to work
- Connectivity
- Creates a connection between two Bend Bikeway Routes (TSP Low Stress Network) or improves access to a Bend Bikeway Route or Trail
- Projects less than $450,000 estimated construction cost.
The Process
The City has identified several potential projects throughout the City based on crash data, known network connectivity issues, or known SRTS or SRTP issues. Additionally, the City will work with neighborhood board members to identify issues within their neighborhood or within the community that their neighborhood would benefit from. If you, as a resident of Bend, have an issue that needs to be addressed, neighborhood district board members are seeking input until November 3, 2023. Click here to find your neighborhood district contact information. Each neighborhood district may submit up to two issues.
Once a neighborhood district has submitted their two issues, staff will work with the district board members to create a project prospectus that will include a sketch and cost estimate.
The District boards will work together to recommend a prioritized project list to City Council. City Council will make the final determination on projects. There will be more projects than funding, so projects will be built in prioritized order until the NSSP program funding has been completed.
There could be additional funding sought for projects such as Safe Route to School Funding and Citizen Service Request Funding. City Crews may also be able to self-perform some work such as straightforward sidewalk infill or crosswalk projects.
PROGRAM BACKGROUND
In the 2019-2021 biennial budget, the City Council approved $800,000 to fund the NSSP. In Fall 2019, the City received more than 360 applications for projects all across Bend (see interactive map tab 1). These projects were then reviewed and prioritized by the Neighborhood Associations (NAs) in which they were located. Each NA submitted its top one or two projects for advancement to the Neighborhood Leadership Alliance (NLA), which resulted in a list of 25 priority projects (map tab 2).
City staff packaged these 25 projects with additional details such as demographic data, crash data and cost information and provided this to the NLA in December 2019. NLA Representatives ranked the projects, considering safety and geographic equity. The results of the rankings highlighted eight top-priority projects – all from different neighborhoods - that addressed traffic flow and safety in neighborhoods (map tab 3).
The first eight projects received the Council approved funding for the 2020-2021 biennium and were completed in 2021. The remaining projects are slated to receive funds from the 2020 Transportation General Obligation (GO) Bond Program in the Local Road Safety category.
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MORE COMPLETED PROJECTS
2022 Projects - Completed
2021 Projects - Completed
2020 Projects - Completed
PHASE ONE (2020 – 2025) PROGRAM CRITERIA
Eligible streets for the program are public streets owned and maintained by the City of Bend that are:
- Local, residential streets
- Used by more than 400 vehicles per day (more than 11 cars in 15 minutes)
- More than 3 blocks long (approx. 1800 ft.),
- Local street intersections with a collector or arterial street, or
- Spot improvements on an arterial or collector fronted by residential lots.
What types of projects are included?
This program is for projects that help improve residential street safety such as short infill sidewalk segments, crosswalks, street lights, speed humps on neighborhood greenways, curb extensions, signing, striping, and more. The City’s Neighborhood Street Safety Toolbox provides a list of the types of projects considered for this program. To help communicate street safety awareness, each project is asked to include some type of education campaign.
OTHER OPTIONS FOR STREET SAFETY CONCERNS
Check to see if your street safety concern can be reported with a Barrier Removal Request or Service Request. If it can be reported with one of these request forms, it will be a much faster, easier process.
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SUBMIT BARRIER REMOVAL REQUEST |
The Barrier Removal Request Program allows citizens with disabilities to report physical or structural barriers located in the City right-of-way that impede or obstruct travel. Common barriers in the City right-of-way can include sidewalk or curb ramp deficiencies.
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SUBMIT SERVICE REQUEST |
The Service Request Program allows community members to report potholes, traffic signal issues, street sign issues and other street maintenance issues.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION
Program Documents
- Program Summary
- Neighborhood Street Safety Toolbox
- Application Form (Need a paper application form? Request a paper application form by email or call (541) 322-6336.)
- Application Overview
- Project Summary (including Eligibility Checklist)
- NLA Prioritization Worksheet
- Neighborhood Support Survey
Informational Resources
- General Maps and Data
- Neighborhood Street Safety Program Transportation Map. Shows the street classifications by Neighborhood Association: local, collector and arterial streets. Shows private streets.
- Crash Data
- Current Projects
- Future Projects
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