Neighborhood Greenways
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Neighborhood Greenways Go Car-Free

City blocks off a few neighborhood streets to provide safe sites for walking and biking close to home
Laurel Brauns

The City of Bend is closing off NW 15th Street and NE Sixth Street to through traffic as of Tuesday, with a goal of providing neighborhood streets close to home where locals get some fresh air and still maintain social distancing. In the coming days and weeks, the City plans to expand the program to […]

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Don’t Let Vocal Minorities Erode Alternative Transportation Options

Transportation and housing: two hot topics in Bend
The Source Staff

Few topics bring up as much passion in Bendites as transportation and housing. On the first topic, the City of Bend is continually charged with balancing the needs of the greater whole—drivers, walkers, cyclists and disabled people alike—with the cries of the sometimes-outsized vocal minority. While it’s true that Bend needs more vehicle-transportation infrastructure to […]

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Greenways Get Going

As pedestrians and cyclists are being hit by cars in near-record numbers, some say Bend’s Neighborhood Greenways program is welcome—but doesn’t go far enough
Chris Miller

Phase one of a project aimed at making some streets safer for Bend pedestrians and cyclists will start this month. At its March 20 meeting, the Bend City Council voted unanimously to authorize Big Schatz Construction to build phase one of the Neighborhood Greenways project—a four-phase project that addresses the 2017 Council’s Goal Number 2: […]

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