Posts tagged: Safety

On May 27, ASUO, GTFF, and LiveMove held a news conference to honor those we have lost, to install signs urging safe driving, and to unveil a proposed street redesign aimed at improving safety. BEST and others joined in support.

Join in solidarity to honor those we’ve lost and to learn what the ASUO + GTFF and LiveMove student groups are doing in response.

Join in solidarity to honor those we’ve lost and to call for safe and welcoming streets for people from all walks of life.

Before more tragedies occur, advocate for improvements to protect everyone, especially people walking, biking, or rolling.

A decade later, the best way to honor those we lost is to redesign Main Street to protect the people we have.

You can’t measure the cost of each lost life. Except we can and do, every time we make choices about how to invest transportation dollars.

The Oregon Department of Transportation will be changing the intersection of 54th Street and Main Street in Springfield. In 2015, a driver ran a red light there, injuring a mother and killing all three of her kids crossing legally in a crosswalk. BEST sees a need to redesign all of Main Street to encourage slower travel speeds.

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), a.k.a. the Infrastructure Investment and Investment Act (IIJA), states—including Oregon—where 15% or more of traffic deaths are people outside vehicles are required to spend 15% or more of Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funds on vulnerable road user safety.

BEST applauds Lane County’s first Bicycle Master Plan (BMP) as the critical first step towards making bicycling safe and practical countywide. Building on an ambitious but compelling vision, the plan sets forth goals, identifies a countywide bicycle network, selects bikeway facilities to build out the network, divides these into discrete projects, and prioritizes these as near-, medium-, or long-term.

Through May 3, Lane County is accepting comments on this draft plan for rural roads and paved paths outside of the Eugene-Springfield urban area.

Then county commissioners will consider amending the Lane County Transportation System Plan (TSP) to incorporate the bicycle network detailed in the plan.

Responding to questions about potential environmental impacts of widening Highway 126 between Veneta and Eugene, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) denied that there were any “that rise to the level of ‘significant.’ ”