The City just launched a one-minute survey that allows our community an opportunity to help prioritize the most highly-desired safe travel and traffic improvement projects. The one-minute survey is available at www.bendoregon.gov/one-minute-survey.

Some transportation projects, such as the Empire and Murphy corridor improvements currently under construction, are funded. But many other important needs aren’t. At a special council meeting on Sept. 30, all Councilors said they supported a potential bond measure in May of 2020 as part of a longer-term transportation funding strategy.

The Citywide Transportation Advisory Committee, which is helping the City update its long range transportation plan, recently sorted a long list of transportation infrastructure projects into near-term (1-10 years), mid-term (11-15 years), and long-term (16-20 years) categories.

More community input such as this survey can continue to help us prioritize projects in the near-term category. We will share the results of the survey with Bend’s policymakers as they consider options for a bond measure.

Visit www.bendoregon.gov/safe-travel for more information.