Neighborhood Street Safety Program

2026 NSSP Construction

Construction Includes Four Projects

• Roosevelt Avenue Speed Reduction – Speed reduction (SE Third Street to SE Fifth Street)
• Crossing of Reed Market Road at Chamberlain Avenue and paving of Chamberlain Ave, including the removal of the existing barrier.
• Silverlake Boulevard-Chamberlain Street – Intersection enhancements and sidewalk infill
• Revere Avenue, Eighth Street to Shepherd Road – Speed reduction

2026 Project Community Meetings 

• Silverlake Boulevard-Chamberlain Street Pre-construction Information Booth
  March 24, 2026, 4:30-6 p.m.
  Blakely Park (Near Basketball Court)
  1155 Brookswood Blvd.
• The City hosted a Design Open House and Survey for the anticipated 2026 Construction Projects.
  In person: July 7, 2025, Online: July 7-25, 2025

The comment period is now closed. However, feel free to browse the open house materials.

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Phase 2 Projects

Funding

In November 2020, the voters approved a Transportation General Obligation Bond package. This package sets aside funding specifically for the Neighborhood Street Safety projects planned for design and construction 2025-2028.

Milestones

• City and Neighborhood Districts gather input on potential projects/issues – Complete
• Neighborhood Districts submit up to two project requests per district – Complete
• City reviews requests with neighborhood districts and develops project concepts and cost estimates – Complete
• City creates a prioritized project list – Complete (see list below)
• City designs and builds projects – estimate start spring 2026

Criteria and Process for Project Selection

For the 2025-2030 project selection, several criteria were considered based on their impact on local residential streets, the creation or improvement of safe routes to schools or parks, and the presence of missing sidewalks, bikeways or crosswalks. Enhancements to arterial crosswalks were also prioritized, especially where difficult crossings create barriers for everyday transportation needs like getting to school, parks, shopping or work. Connectivity was another key factor, with projects that create or improve connections between Bend Bikeway Routes or Trails being highly valued.

The Neighborhood District boards worked together to recommend a prioritized project list to the City Council, who made the final decision on the projects. Given that there are more projects than available funding, they will be built in prioritized order until the program’s funding is exhausted. The City is also actively seeking grants and other opportunities to fund all the requested projects.

Selected Projects List

• Reed Market Road at Fifth Street – Intersection enhancements
• Roosevelt Avenue Speed Reduction – Speed reduction (SE Third to SE Fifth)
• Silverlake-Chamberlain – Intersection enhancements and sidewalk infill
• Revere Eighth to Shepherd Road – Speed reduction
• Coyner Connection – Trail infill
• Tuscon Way & Providence Drive– speed reduction
• Blakely Road (Silverlake to powers) – Speed reduction
• SRTS Summit High School Discovery Park Trail Crossings – Crossing enhancements
• Mt Washington Drive and Regency Street Crossing – Intersection enhancements
• SRTP Boyd Park, Boyd Acres Road Crosswalks at Sierra and Gloucester – Intersection enhancements
• Shepherd Road, Wells Acres Road to Neff Road – Sidewalk infill and speed reduction
• Arterial Crosswalk Enhancement Ninth Street at Hawthorne Boulevard – intersection enhancements
• Neighborhood traffic Safety Speed reduction on Weeping Willow – Speed reduction
• Galveston Avenue Pedestrian Improvements – Speed reduction (17th to 14th)
• Arterial Crosswalk Enhancement NE Eighth Street at Lafayette Avenue – Intersection enhancements
• Eighth Street & Quimby Avenue Crossing – enhanced crossing (synergy project)
• 27th Street and Clairaway Avenue crossing – enhanced crossing (synergy project)
• Daggett (Wells Acres Road to Purcell Boulevard) – Speed reduction (synergy project)
• Neff Road, Eagle Road/Providence Drive – Intersection enhancements (synergy project)

*Synergy project indicates that this item combines multiple infrastructure projects for maximized efficiency, such as other needed transportation improvements, or sewer, water or stormwater work.

In the 2019-2021 budget, City Council set aside $800,000 for the Neighborhood Street Safety Program. By fall 2019, the City had received over 360 project applications from all around Bend. These projects were reviewed and prioritized by the local Neighborhood Districts. Each Neighborhood District picked their top one or two projects to send to the Neighborhood Leadership Alliance, creating a list of 25 priority projects.

City staff then added more details to these 25 projects, like demographic data, crash data, and cost information, and shared this with the Neighborhood Leadership Alliance in December 2019. The Neighborhood Leadership Alliance Representatives ranked the projects based on safety and geographic fairness. This ranking highlighted eight top-priority projects from different neighborhoods that focused on improving traffic flow and safety.

The first eight projects received Council approved funding for 2020-2021 and were completed in 2021. The remaining projects will get funds from the 2020 Transportation General Obligation Bond Program under the Local Road Safety category.

These improvements make our neighborhoods safer.

If you have a street safety concern, check if it can be reported using a Barrier Removal Request or a Service Request. These forms make the process quicker and easier.

The Barrier Removal Request Program helps citizens with disabilities report physical or structural barriers in the City right-of-way that block or hinder travel. Common issues include problems with sidewalks or curb ramps

The Service Request Program through our Bend Works app lets community members report potholes, traffic signal issues, street sign problems and other street maintenance concerns.