Our local Area Commission on Transportation meets Thursday the 1st, and the final recommendations in Region 2 for State funding in the 2018-2021 "Fix-it" and "Enhance" program cycles are on the agenda.
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Five Crossing Safety Projects
Project estimate is now at $566,220 |
The Salem proposal for several enhanced crossings, including two for the
Winter-Maple Bike Boulevard route, one of them for an intersection
where Caroline Storm was killed last year, made the final cut as part of the 100% recommended list for funding.
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| Our area's 150% list, with 100% recommendation in green |
Significantly, after formal scoping by ODOT, the project's estimate was raised once again, having already gone from $250,000 to $380,000. This time its estimate sits at $566,220.
The other recommended project is on Hayesville Drive NE for sidewalks and bike lanes, and outside of Salem proper in unincorporated Marion County.
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| Hayesville Sidewalks and Bike Lanes |
While some replacement buses for Cherriots were on the 150% list, they did not make the recommended 100% list for full funding.
The Super-ACT will meet later in September to ratify (or potentially adjust, I guess), these recommendations. (And then the Super-Duper ACT of ACTs,
the OTC, will confirm the final list at some point.)
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Look for the historic sign
next to the entry |
For more about the Enhance cycle in 2018-2021, see
all notes here. ODOT's page is
here.
MWACT meets Thursday the 1st at 3:30pm. It meets at MWVCOG/SKATS at
100 High St. SE, Suite 200, above Andaluz Kitchen and Table Five 08.
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I'd like to clarify the status of these recommendations. The projects highlighted in the green rows are ODOT's straw proposal for a set of projects that fit within the 100% amount of funds. As a straw proposal, it is a starting point for discussion at MWACT this Thursday and the other three ACTs in Region 2, and then later at the Super-ACT meeting. So it's inaccurate to say anything is a "final recommendation" or "final cut" yet.
Mike Jaffe
Transportation Planning Director
Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments.
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