Tomorrow, Tuesday the 14th, the City is hosting a teleconference on the latest concepts for the Union Street Greenway, which will connect the Union Street bridge to the Winter-Maple Greenway, and in later phases may connect to the 12th Street Promenade. The current plans end at Summer Street and use existing legacy bike lanes and routing via Chemeketa to points east.
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| Warning signs, but no striped crosswalks or signals Planned for bulb-outs and traffic signal |
They have published no new information about any revisions, and so there is nothing really to say yet. Hopefully they will publish concept drawings and not restrict everything to the video feed. Later there will be more to say.
The City of Salem will present an updated design for the Union Street Family Friendly Bikeway Project on December 14, 2021 at 7 p.m. The public meeting will take place as a Virtual Open House via Zoom, where design elements of the project will be presented to the public.
The proposed project, which seeks to add bike lanes to Union Street between Commercial Street NE and Summer Street NE, will enhance the overall pedestrian, bike riding, and vehicular safety of Union. The project will provide separated bike lanes, road striping, improved crosswalks, and parking as required. When all segment pieces are complete, this project will connect with the 134-mile Willamette Valley Scenic Bikeway. Additionally, the intersection of Union Street NE and Liberty Street NE will be improved to include a traffic signal and bulb out corners to improve safety for both bicycles and pedestrians.
Once complete, the bike path will be an integral link in the downtown Salem bicycle system. The project will connect directly to Wallace Marine Park, Riverfront Park, Minto-Brown Island Park, and the Capital Mall.
In the pile of pre-applications for the 2024-2029 cycle at the MPO, a new project would stripe bike lanes on Winter Street between Mill Creek (just south of D Street) and Court Street. (It does not include the traffic circle, however. See August discussion linked below for a little on that.)
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| Winter Street between Court and D Streets |
Recently:
- "City to Hold Teleconference on Union Street Plans" (June)
- The follow-up survey, "New Survey on Union Street and Project itself Suffers from Autoist Bias Still" (June)
- Related problems in framing, "Autoism Frames Reporting on Opening Union and Winter Streets" (July)
- Some disagreement on the connection at Winter Street, "Learn about Neighborhood Greenways and Traffic Calming on Saturday the 21st" (August)
Addendum
Nice to see the Board Chair for Cherriots weigh in!
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(Added clip from Cherriots Board Chair.)
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