Title

Bend Midtown Pedestrian and Bicycle Crossings Project

Abstract

The City of Bend is divided by a highway and railroad, which separates the City’s Downtown from the emerging Bend Central District (BCD), Bend’s primary transit hub (Hawthorne Staton), and other destinations. While US 97 and the BNSF railroad serve important roles in the regional transport of goods and people, it serves as a barrier to community connectivity and leaves few comfortable options for people walking, biking, or rolling between the east and west sides of Bend.

The Midtown Pedestrian and Bicycle Crossing Project identified improvement opportunities along three east-west streets in Bend, including two streets with existing undercrossing of US 97 and the railroad as well as potential for a new overcrossing over the railroad and US 97 on Hawthorne Avenue. The feasibility study included an evaluation of intersection operations, safety and pedestrian and bicycle level of traffic stress along all three corridors, with the goal of selecting preferred multimodal treatments for each of corridor.

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Kayla's Presentation

Speaker Bio

Kayla Fleskes-Lane is a transportation engineer with a focus on multimodal transportation analysis and planning. Her focus is on multimodal corridor analysis, with expertise in travel demand modeling, traffic volume development and multi-resolution modeling. She has helped develop multimodal corridor concepts for half a dozen streets and brings experience providing transportation system planning, intersection operations analysis, multimodal corridor concept development and traffic operations analysis for major transit projects. Kayla has extensive experience planning and evaluating transportation improvements across Oregon, Washington and Texas and is a young professional with almost five years of experience working for DKS Associates in the Portland office.

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