If the council starts the Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPA) process tomorrow, the design will go to the planning commission to decide on a recommendation. Later the council votes on whether to adopt it
Residents can submit comments but tomorrow is not a specific "public hearing"
#transitsky
Tomorrow at the Corvallis city council meeting, the group behind the Monroe Avenue Corridor Study will request that the council start the process to add it to the transportation plan
I support this plan, as it will make Monroe Avenue better for pedestrians and bicyclists
#cycling #pedestrianism
The city council voted for this scoping evaluation after previous projects ran into complications during design (hence why Tyler/9th crossing is still in development)
If you miss the open house there will be a online version available until the 14th of April
#urbanism #cityplanning #cycling
Map of city of Corvallis bikeway projects currently in the transportation improvement plan Image taken from city of Corvallis website
Tonight at the Corvallis public library from 5:30-7:30 there will be an open house regarding prioritizing neighborhood bikeways
In addition to ordering the routes, the study will try to identify major design aspects earlier in the process
#cityplanning #bicycling #urbanism #transitsky
This is vital to making the bikeway actually usable for bike riders at heavy traffic times (and adds another crosswalk on 9th)
I still have concerns about the route’s effectiveness at the crossings on 2/3/4th, but this makes 5th - Kings significantly better
#bicycling #cycling #transitsky
90% design of the Tyler Avenue and 9th street bicycle signal, overhead concept view Taken from city of Corvallis website
Mockup street views of Tyler Avenue and 9th street bicycling signal Taken from city of Corvallis website
update on local projects: Corvallis is finalizing the design for the Tyler Avenue Bikeway 9th st crossing
adding a light on 9th allows pedestrian and bicyclists to cross, but cars can only turn right into/out of Tyler Avenue
#cycling #bicycling #transitsky #urbanism #cityplanning #pedestiranism
That does seem like a particularly bad time to try and get people to support public transit investments
Didn’t the vote happen in 2020?
In amazing transit news: Seattle opened the new extension of their light rail that connects the Bellevue line to the rest of the system
The timing is excellent, as thousands of commuters can now avoid spiking gas prices and ride in style
#transit #transitsky #trains #urbanism #cityplanning
If you’re going downtown today for the protest in Corvallis, consider taking the bus
It’s free and you avoid having to try and find parking on a very busy day
#bus #transit #pedestrianism #urbanism
What a perfect way to celebrate the spike in oil prices: Committing to paying as much as $15 billion to expand freeway capacity. And Oregon and Washington will force future generations to pay for this automobile infrastructure, that will mostly go unused because of high tolls.
The Interstate Bridge Project is channelling their inner Robert Moses: Say anything, promise anything to get the project started. They'say $7.5 Billion for "Phase 1," but their design means they'll be back and insist you pay for Phases 2/3. Start construction and you're on the hook for $15 billion
I’m glad to see that there is pressure to right size the project, but advocates need to make sure that happens
They are still adding additional lanes
They will try to pull funding to the interchanges
They will likely Delay the light rail
#orleg #odot #carcentric #highwayexpansion #transitsky
It is extra unfortunate that Oregon Democrats have failed to fund transit & cut investment in bicycling/rail as a fuel crisis begins
There are transportation alternatives Oregon should have invested in, but they took every opportunity to support cars above all
#orleg #transitsky #carcentric
Did you know that 10s of $Ms to Amtrak cascades was defunded Tuesday? It’s OK though. None of that money paid for Trains according to Senator Lieber
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Can you imagine if @tinakotek.bsky.social and @governorferguson.bsky.social got together and put out a similar press release, promising to rebuild the IBR at it's current size and avoiding this absolutely preposterous $15 billion IBR boondoggle?
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I’m slowly working in my community but it’s an uphill battle
The timeline is definitely a broader effort to avoid public participation
But I still think that transit advocates need to build stronger and wider networks so that when funding is threatened we can get hundreds of people writing in/calling even on extremely short notice
ODOT's budget is fucked, and they could cut funding for their proposed multibillion dollar, litigation-challenged, oversized, polluting freeway expansions or cut 60% of a successful Safe Routes to School program
guess which oregon's democrats chose! #orleg
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Adding lanes won’t alleviate congestion. The promised yellow line extension is the last thing that would be built (easily cut)
The cost could be reduced if the project was scoped to just be the bridge & adjacent interchanges (instead of the several additional miles of roadwork in Washington)
Today the Oregon legislature voted to raid a puny pot of money the state uses as matching funds to apply for federal grants for modest rail improvements, directing $ instead for backlogged road maintenance
Of course leg didn’t touch the $160m of bonding money queued for a doomed $2b freeway project
I’m disappointed that we continue to have representatives with these priorities, but I think there is something to be said for the general public’s disinterest around transit funding
Testimony submitted was approximately ~150 pieces, which is not a lot given the scope of the bill
#orleg #transitsky
One of the architects of the bill, Senator Kate Lieber, acknowledged anger from opposing voices. She said folks should channel that into helping defeat the "no gas tax" ballot measure, which blames for creating ODOT's $288 million budget hole.
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It should not take 5 years of tireless advocacy to maintain the bus service we already have.
The bill also doesn’t touch the millions of dollars ODOT intends to use for bonding to pay for another $160 million allocation towards the doomed, $2 billion Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion.
These cuts to Safe Routes were a deliberate political choice.
They got a watered-down compromise bill through after the main bill failed and they had to call a special session
The republicans kneecapped it even more, but it’s still the result of a supermajority that is very ineffective at legislating
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There is still time to submit testimony to the Oregon legislature and call your representatives
Don’t let them kneecap our rail funding and direct bike registration fee to supporting highways
#orleg #carcentric #amtrak #transitsky #urbanism
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