Blink Your Eyes Twice for Change
 It wasn’t so long ago, the town of Utrecht in The Netherlands was like many you might find here in the United States. It’s city center was dominated by …
Save the Milwaukee Greenway
Do You Agree with the Reroute? Our roads are public property and maintained by our local and state government entities so all people can use and benefit from them. That …
Street Maintenance across Bend in 2019
Each year, the City of Bend’s Street Maintenance team gets to work with roadway maintenance before wear and tear gets too severe as to require a wholesale rebuild on a …
You Can Support Greenways and Lowering Speed Limits
At the March 20th City Council Meeting (read below for details) Transportation staff from the City of Bend will soon present the first reading of an ordinance that will allow …
Improvements Coming to Highway 20
Our Wednesday Facebook post about the poor travel conditions on Highway 20 was our attempt to compare and contrast. We wanted to show that while some parts of Bend are completely accessible …
NW 15th and NE 6th Greenways Delayed
We are unhappy to report that the city’s implementation of the Phase 1 greenway plans will be delayed until Spring 2019
Next step in the process: Open houses for Neighborhood Greenways
City staffers will hold open houses this week for Neighborhood Greenway projects on NE 6th and NW 15th. They are part the city’s standard outreach playbook to collect public input. …
More Good News For Greenways
Last month the City considered several transportation funding options and chose a “Blended Approach” (Option 3) to recommend to City Council. If adopted, this would allocate as much as $1 …
NW 15th Street Greenway launch event
Last Sunday evening, about 20-25 neighbors joined Lucas Freeman and Aron Yarmo, of Bend Bikes, to discuss how to calm traffic on NW 15th Street and create a Greenway which …
BPAC wants your safe sidewalk nominee
Sometimes, in the depth of winter and the chips have been down (meaning the bike lanes have been iced over for what seems like un-ending weeks), it’s nice to acknowledge …
Looking forward to 2017
Bend Bikes hopes to continue the strong growth it experienced in 2016 into 2017. Our membership rolls grew and it has been gratifying to see so many new faces showing …
Bike lanes help everybody
Note: This post originally appeared in The Bend Bulletin’s ‘Letters to the Editor’ section. Traffic in Bend is likely to get worse (“Short commutes still the norm in Bend,” Jan. …
Why you should care about HB2682
Quite literally, speed can kill. Especially, when a collision involves an automobile and a vulnerable road user. According to a 1999 study commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, …
Bike lane isn’t for passing
Not too long ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation launched a public service announcement campaign to educate folks on the fact that every intersection in Oregon is a crosswalk even …
Unexpected road diet
A single day closure on Franklin shows what a road diet might feel like Last week, westbound auto travel lanes on a short section of Franklin Avenue in Bend were …