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Transportation Safety Action Plans (TSAP) provides long-term goals, policies and strategies and near-term actions to eliminate deaths and life-changing injuries on Oregon's transportation system. The TSAP serves as the unifying framework for transportation safety planning in Central Oregon.

Central Oregon Safe Travel Team
A subcommittee of Central Oregon Area Commission on Transportation
Committee Page and Meeting Material

Plan	Description	Status
Bend MPO Performance Measure Update	Bend MPO adopted ODOT’s safety performance targets as established in the 2016 Oregon Transportation Safety Plan via Bend MPO Resolution 2018-02. This report is the first review of the next 5-year cycle of updated crash data. In the following tables and figures, the rates and targets are shown for crashes within the Bend MPO boundary: number of fatalities, fatality rate, number of serious injuries, rate of serious injuries, and number of non-motorized crashes. Bend MPO Safety Performance Measure Update, July 2022 Bend MPO Performance Measure Report, December 2019	Last Update July 2022
Bend Area Safety Action Plan	The Bend Area TSAP focuses on the area within the Bend Urban Growth Boundary (UGB), as shown by the study area from crash data from ODOT in years 2012-2016. Bend Area Transportation Safety Action Plan 2019	Last update 2019
Deschutes County Safety Action Plan	Deschutes County concurrently developed its own TSAP for the area outside the Bend UGB. The County TSAP includes the area within the Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) that is outside the UGB Deschutes County Transportation Safety Action Plan 2019	Last update 2019
Oregon Safety Action Plan	The Oregon Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) provides long-term goals, policies and strategies and near-term actions to eliminate deaths and life-changing injuries on Oregon's transportation system. The Oregon Transportation Commission adopted the 2021 TSAP at their September 9, 2021 meeting. Oregon Transportation Safety Action Plan 2021	September 2021
Bend/Deschutes Implementation Plan of Safety Action Items	The City of Bend and Deschutes County recently completed transportation safety action plans (TSAP). The plans include recommendations for infrastructure improvements and non-infrastructure improvements. This implementation project is focused on several of the high priority non-infrastructure actions. Implement non-infrastructure emphasis area improvements and action items identified in the TSAP documents to reduce fatal and incapacitating crashes. Create plan for implementation of a Regional Multidisciplinary Safety Committee Create and implement Safety Communication Plans for the City of Bend and Deschutes County based on data from the TSAP documents Develop a Safety Communications Calendar for the City of Bend and Deschutes County Create a funding strategy with partner agencies to continue safety committees and communications plans Central Oregon Safe Travels Summit video recording Presentation Agenda Central Oregon Safe Travels Survey Results Over 1800 respondents as of 9/30/2021 Major themes of the comments included More enforcement More safety infrastructure built More transportation options and education	Project dates 2020 - 2021
ODOT Interactive Crash Map	The Oregon Transportation Safety Data Explorer includes: ODOT Crash Data 2015-2020 (2021-2022) final crash data is not available at this time) Oregon Transportation Safety Data Explorer	Data from 2015-2019

Study Area and Crash Data

Bend Safety Action Plan will focus on the area within the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). This project will work in coordination with the Deschutes County TSAP throughout the project. Both projects will share the same crash data set and analysis methods for resource efficiencies.

You can access mapped crash data for the study period of 2012-2018 from Oregon Department of Transportation Crash Analysis on the city's interactive mapping tool or Oregon Transportation Safety Data Explorer. The data is under the Transportation layer. You can view crash data for the entire Deschutes County. Please contact Tyler Deke if you have any questions with the process or the data.

Bend MPO Transportation Project Amendments - Public Comment Period

Post Date:10/16/2023 12:30 PM

Amendments to the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP)

21-Day Public Comment Period Open

The Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board will consider approval of amendments to the MTIP at their Nov. 17 meeting at 12 p.m. Public comments can be submitted, for the next three weeks, via email to kkennedy@bendoregon.gov or during Public Comment at the hybrid in-person/online MPO Policy Board meeting.

In-person meeting information, including a Zoom link to attend online, will be posted to the Bend MPO Policy Board webpage one week prior to the meeting date.

Summary of Amendments

Project Key Number	Project Name	Proposed project total	Changes
23522	City of Bend Mobility Points	$1,210,918	Add new project: Develop an initial network of four Mobility Points around the City. Mobility Point infrastructure provided through bus shelters, e-bike-sharing stations and charging, bicycle parking, electric car-sharing vehicles and electric vehicle charging equipment.
20073	All Roads Transportation Safety (Bend, Phase 2)	$701,000	Major change in scope: Change the current 4-lane roadway to a 3-lane roadway with center turn lane and bike lanes at Greenwood Ave from 1st Street to 4th Street to improve safety for the traveling public.
23494	Hawthorne Ave Pedestrian & Bicyclist Overcrossing (Bend)	$24,450,000	Add new project: Provide safe access for pedestrians and bicyclists by designing and constructing a bridge over US97 and BNSF railroad connecting east Hawthorne Avenue to downtown Bend.
21756	US20: Central Oregon Hwy Culverts Corridor	$337,916	Add existing project: Design, right of way acquisition, and utility relocation for a future culvert replacement and repair addressing 12 poor and critical culverts to provide functioning culverts on US20 in the future.
22739	US97: I-84 to California border	$5,809,000	Add existing project: Install National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) fast charging stations every 50 miles along US97 from I-84 to the California border, to provide electric vehicle drivers with reliable, fast charging along major corridors in Oregon.
22767	Driver Feedback Signs (Deschutes County)	$1,032,873	Add existing project: Install two speed feedback signs on each of the following roads; Alfalfa Market Rd, Burgess Rd, Cline Falls Hwy, Day Rd, Old Bend-Redmond Hwy, Powell Butte Hwy, South Canal Blvd and South Century Dr.
23071	US 97 Culvert Corridor Phase 2	$468,430	Add existing project: Design repairs and replacements for poor and critical culverts on priority routes to avoid unsafe driving conditions and delays caused when culverts fail.

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