Comments for “OR 99W S.Corvallis ”
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The year is 2055, and this stretch of 99 sees its hundredth death as a driver (who couldn't afford an autonomous vehicle) checks a text from his friend and splatters someone with his 6 ton quad cab. ODOT managers shrug, shake their heads, and readjust the blinking rate of the flashing yellow lights
fifty feet away (now placed aesthetically in a climate-friendly rain garden)."Such a shame that safety is a shared responsibility," they say. "That pedestrian should have known better than to inconvenience this driver by daring to cross a public right of way. If only there was something else that could have been done." The driver gets consoled and receives no ticket because it would be an inconvenience after everything he went through. Speed limit raised to 65 to encourage people to pay better attention.
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Have ODOT's imagineers try using any part of this facility for longer than 10 minutes WITHOUT a motor vehicle, and see how they like it.
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Create a bypass so there is no longer a highway vivisecting a town where people are trying to live
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This crossing as a pedestrian is particularly frightening. The curb cuts are offset awkwardly and increase the distance traveled across Lilly Ave. I am not sure why else, but I always feel very vulnerable crossing this section as I walk along 99.
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During school drop off and pick up this area is insanely unsafe for all road users. As a motorist, it is impossible to turn left on the highway from Tunison without using the turning lane as a holding place until another motorist lets you in. All this gambling and risk taking makes it very unsafe for anyone to walk or bike, but especially the children. They are having to cross Tunison or Viewmont while motorist are trying to find the quickest entry point into traffic. Although residents want to, they report that they don't feel it safe enough letting their children walk or bike to school.
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There is no safe way for bicycles to turn left from northbound 3rd Street to westbound Avery Ave to get to Avery Park and OSU. The electromagnetic sensor in the turn lane usually does not work for bikes, and it is extremely difficult to get into the left turn lane in the first place. The alternative is to use the lights at Crystal Lake Drive to cross 3rd, but that bike lane is also very dangerous, with right-turning cars cutting the corner into the bike lane and usually not even looking for bikes at all. The bike lane sensor here is also unreliable and located in an ideal spot to get hit by a car whose driver is not looking for bikes. This forces bicyclists to dismount and use the crosswalk buttons or risk getting run over. There must be a better way for bikes to get across to Avery Park (and OSU beyond). I'm surprised no bicyclists have died here yet.
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A major improvement to bike and walking connectivity between the co-op bike lane and the business node at Mayberry would be the bike lane along the mill race. I have heard that a few "tree huggers" no disrespect, have stymied this idea but I think the communities will and best interests should override any special interest. It is a man made ditch after all. And is part of the south Corvallis plan
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One reason this crossing is so anti-pedestrian is that the stopped cars are right on the pedestrian. I would like to see the intersection widened in the since that the cars are stopped one or two car lengths before the actual crosswalk. With some added street markings this would be a much more inviting crossing.
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Create a bypass to Westbound Hwy 20 from 99 so that traffic doesn't need to go into town and go around the block to get onto hwy 20.
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Create a complete bypass from some point to hwy 34 to limit the pass through traffic in southtown
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Address the dangerous intersection at SE 3rd St and Crystal Lake Dr./Avery Ave. Revise lane markings, signage, light timing and detection. Reinforce the right-of-way of walkers and cyclists. Use green lanes, bike boxes, preferential signals, special sensors and indicator lights.
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On the west side of this long block, add parallel parking, using space saved by narrowing the lanes. Perhaps the parking lane could protect the south bound bike lane. By alternating the location of the parking lane, the travel lanes would not be aligned, asking a driver to slalom slightly on their way north or south.
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On the east side of this long block, add parallel parking, using space saved by narrowing the lanes. Perhaps the parking lane could protect the north bound bike lane. By alternating the location of the parking lane, the travel lanes would not be aligned, asking a driver to slalom slightly on their way north or south.
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On the west side of this long block, add parallel parking, using space saved by narrowing the lanes. Perhaps the parking lane could protect the south bound bike lane. By alternating the location of the parking lane, the travel lanes would not be aligned, asking a driver to slalom slightly on their way north or south.
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On the east side of this long block, add parallel parking, using space saved by narrowing the lanes. Perhaps the parking lane could protect the north bound bike lane.
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Reduce the lane widths to ten feet, as recommended by NACTO. Use the space for protected or buffered bike lanes or on-street parallel parking to slow the traffic.
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Put in an access road to First Alternative, Fireworks, the fuel depot/Blackberry Junction site and the Rental Yard. Close the driveways on SE Third St., which are threatening, uncomfortable and leave people on the sidewalk unprotected. This access control would reduce locations for left turns. A traffic light at Chapman Pl. would allow those left turns to proceed safely.
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ODOT put in the fence along 99W at Goodnight Ave as part of the negotiation for highway widening in 1995. (Ed at ODOT was the project manager.)
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Since it's unsafe to bike along 99, Block 15, a major destination, is best reached by biking through neighborhoods on east side of road, even if you start on the west side in South Corvallis. However, this necessitates making a left turn from Rivergreen onto 99 crossing 4 lanes (each about 18 feet wide for some reason) where cars are going 55 mph and are accelerating making their speed difficult to judge. Suggestions:
- Lower the speed through block 15 turnoff
- Maintain one lane through North of Rivergreen
- Narrower lanes
- Roundabout at Rivergreen to slow traffic and make it more predictable.
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High lip on curb at Coop entrance is non-compliant and dangerous. It's difficult to turn right from 99 into the Coop without taking the car lane in order to be able to turn at an angle that allows the bicycle to make it over the lip. My dad broke his collarbone at this site in just this way. The same thing is true throughout this entire corridor.
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Drivers routinely travel well over the speed limit and pass bicycles too closely, which is already too high throughout most of this stretch. This is generally not true on 9th street between Harrison and Circle, where the speed limit is 35 mph because the lanes are narrower. For 3rd street, the same thing should be done:
- Narrow the lanes
- Expand the bike lanes to add protection
- Install center islands where a shared left turn lane is not needed and plant trees and other vegetation to give the feeling that the road is more closed in.
- Remove debris from the bike lane.Liked 20 times -
I get right hooked at this intersection by about 1 in 3 drivers. Drivers also routinely pull up the intersection in the bike lane. I think the problem could be resolved by summarily hanging one or two offending drivers from the light poles so that other drivers are warned to actually pay attention to what they're doing. Alternatively, you could use paint and signage to indicate to drivers that they must stop before they've already plowed through the crosswalk, and that they should look out for bikes before turning right. A stop bar painted 8 to 10 feet before the crosswalk would help. Protecting the bike lane with a barrier for the last ten feet would also stop cars from simply blocking the bike lane.
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The light for the left turn lane from Avery onto 3rd street is triggered even when there is no one there, causing everyone else to have to sit around and wait because no one at the intersection is able to go.
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None of the sensors at this intersection work as intended. None of them can be triggered by a person with a normal bike unless the bike is leaned at a 45 degree angle toward the pavement. Particularly in regard to the left turn lanes from 3rd street onto Avery/Crystal Lake, this leaves bikers waiting in traffic lanes from which they will not be able to move. You should fix the crossings and install indicator lights like you did for the rich neighborhood on Brooklane.
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Two people walking side by side on the sidewalk here have to YELL to have an understandable conversation.
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