Bailey Hill Road project wins state award | Community Spirit

From the InMotion newsletter

The Bailey Hill Road Improvement Project has been awarded a 2009 Oregon Transportation Safety Award for Best Engineering Project from the Alliance for Community Traffic Safety in Oregon (ACTS Oregon). 

The Awards committee was very impressed by the project, especially its solutions-oriented collaborative nature. 

After a fatal crash during the summer of 2007, concerned neighborhood residents formed the Bailey Hill Road Safety Committee to work with City and 4J School District staff to develop an appropriate and effective solution to safety problems on Bailey Hill Road. 

The end result was an innovative street design called a “road diet” that converted the four-lane undivided road into a two-lane road with a center turn lane. 

The design included improved pedestrian crossings, wider bike lanes and completion of a missing sidewalk segment. 

A combination of funding resources, including voter-approved local bonds and a grant from the ODOT Pedestrian and Bike Program was used to implement this project in the summer of 2009.