Clackamas County is updating its bike and pedestrian grasp plans for the primary time in virtually 20 years, and the planners wish to hear from you about what must be included.
This up to date imaginative and prescient for Clackamas County energetic transportation is known as the Stroll Bike Clackamas plan, and undertaking leaders need it to account for the main adjustments which have taken place because the final time the plan was up to date, like new mobility choices, the necessity for pressing carbon emissions reductions and extra emphasis on improved well being and fairness. Objectives for the plan are to:
- Set up infrastructure priorities, resembling the place to construct new bike lanes and sidewalks, which is able to assist the county apply for future grants and different funding alternatives.
- Establish applications that improve security and comfort of strolling and biking (like Secure Routes to College).
- Replace energetic transportation polices and undertake efficiency measures so we are able to observe progress throughout implementation
- Function the pedestrian and bicycle transportation parts of the county’s up to date Transportation System Plan (TSP)
“Clackamas County is updating its pedestrian and bicycle grasp plans to create a complete, long-term imaginative and prescient and to establish methods to enhance strolling, bicycling, and rolling for all individuals who dwell, work, and recreate within the county,” the Stroll Bike Clackamas plan states. “Whereas we’re centered on the unincorporated parts of the county, we’re additionally protecting in thoughts how we hyperlink to connections in cities inside the county.”
Cities in Clackamas County, like Clackamas, Milwaukie, Oregon Metropolis and extra, are in command of their very own transportation plans inside metropolis limits, however the county is answerable for the unincorporated areas between the cities. This has resulted in an incomplete bike community for individuals touring all through the county.
One instance of that is the Linwood Avenue path in Milwaukie: a formidable multi-use path in east Milwaukie that might be rather more helpful if it weren’t solely a mile lengthy. (Clackamas County is at the moment establishing a connecting path on Linwood, however the undertaking timelines had been out of sync.)
Based on Stroll Bike Clackamas’ current situations report, the county at the moment has 167 miles of on-street bikeways, 87 miles of shared-use paths, 1,170 miles of sidewalks and a pair of,800 complete miles of public roadways throughout cities and unincorporated areas. From public suggestions the planners have already obtained, individuals imagine some energetic transportation choices have improved within the county, however security, accessibility and community connectivity points are a giant concern stopping individuals from strolling and biking within the space.
You may share your individual ideas and concepts for energetic transportation in Clackamas County by means of the Stroll Bike Clackamas survey, which shall be open for remark by means of the tip of February. County planners wish to draft and finalize the plan for implementation by subsequent winter.
Taylor has been BikePortland’s workers author since November 2021. She has additionally written for Road Roots and Eugene Weekly. Contact her at taylorgriggswriter@gmail.com
