Reed Market Roundabout
Congestion at the Bond/Reed Market/Brookswood Roundabout continues to be an issue that the SCNA Board is working to improve. New developments of more than 2,000 residential units, off Bond, Reed Market and Century Drive, will further congest traffic at the Roundabout, particularly in case of an emergency evacuation. City Council currently plans construction of a 2-lane Roundabout finishing in June 2030. This project was originally scheduled to be completed by June 2026, before all the new developments finish.
Please take our brief Roundabout survey to let us know how you feel. It should only take 5 minutes to complete and results will be shared with the City. The survey will be available until May 31. Please also share this page with housemates and neighbors to help get a broad response.
If you feel strongly about Roundabout congestion and it’s potential to impact wildfire evacuations, please contact City Council.
- Good: Email [email protected] with “Bond & Reed Market Roundabout” in the subject line.
- Better: Councilors take turns monitoring that address, but you can email them all individually using this link.
- Best: Send them more than one email. Save your message as a draft then send it to them on multiple days. They are sensitive to the volume of email they receive on a topic.
- Passionate: Email and attend a City Council meeting on May 21 or June 4. You can attend in person or via Zoom and speak for 2 minutes. (Preparing remarks and timing yourself in advance is a good idea.) If in person, arrive before 7pm to complete the form outside the door, then place it in the tray inside council chambers and wait to be called. If via Zoom, check this Council meetings page several days before each meeting for an agenda containing Zoom attendance instructions.
Roundabout Related Resources
- If a wind-driven wildfire started on the West or Southwest side of Bend, a traffic jam could trap people in cars, much like the 2023 fires on the island of Maui. Here is the map of Deschutes County evacuation routes.
- For more about the broader plans for the Reed Market Road corridor from the roundabout to 4th street, visit ODOT’s webpage on the project.
- Download this document for a good summary of ODOT plans.
These are resources for our neighbors to provide insight into ongoing projects within the City of Bend that impact SCNA.
FIle a City Complaint or Report with Bend Works
Allows you to report a variety of non-emergency issues around town, such as road and sidewalk related problems, water/sewer issues, vegetation, graffiti, non-emergency police and fire requests, and more. Additionally, you can track the status of your requests, and see other requests that have been submitted.
The Neighborhood Street Safety Program (NSSP) is a new program for small-scale, residential street projects to address pedestrian and bicycle safety, safe routes to school, speeding, intersection control and crossings, and other residential street traffic safety related issues.
In the 2019-2021 biennial budget, the City Council approved $800,000 to fund the program. Last fall, the City received more than 360 applications for projects all across Bend (Map Tab 1). These projects were then reviewed and prioritized by the Neighborhood Associations (NAs) in which they were located. Each NA submitted its top one or two projects for advancement to the NLA, which resulted in a list of 25 priority projects (Map Tab 2).
City staff packaged these 25 projects with additional details such as demographic data, crash data and cost information and provided this to the NLA in December. NLA representatives ranked their top 15 projects, considering safety and geographic equity. The results of the rankings highlighted eight top-priority projects – all from different neighborhoods - that addressed traffic flow and safety in neighborhoods (Map Tab 3).
These eight projects will now move into design and outreach. In May 2020, the NLA will revisit the projects for a final stamp of approval.
