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The Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (BMPO) is updating its Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) to make Bend’s roads, sidewalks and bike lanes safer for everyone. This plan will guide long-term goals, policies, and strategies, as well as short-term steps needed to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our roads. The plan allows us to track progress and see how effective these solutions are over time.

Whether you drive, walk, roll, bike, or take the bus, we want to make sure you can travel safely.

Map showing the Bend MPO boundary (project area).

The Bend TSAP will:

• Strive for zero deaths and serious injuries on all roads within the Bend area.
• Include broad representation of the community in the planning process, especially those who have faced higher rates of traffic injuries and deaths.
• Create a list of safety projects and strategies that can save lives.
• Establish a system to track progress.

• Improves daily commutes and emergency response – reducing crashes reduces road closures and delays.
• Prevent crashes – identifying trends can help us proactively implement safety measures.
• Lower risk of you or someone you know being injured or needing expensive car or bike repairs just from traveling around town.
• Reduce driving stress through better design and fewer conflict points.
• Education and reminders can reduce distraction and encourage sharing the road.

During Phase 1 of our public outreach (April & May 2026) we received nearly 700 map comments and over 1,000 survey responses about near misses, crashes, and locations where people traveling by car, bike, foot, or other mobility device don’t feel safe. Our project team is currently processing this information to help inform this TSAP as well as future use in other Bend-area projects. Once completed, the TSAP Public Engagement Summary will be available on this page. This fall (Phase II of the TSAP public outreach), we will share the results of what we heard in Phase 1 – via this webpage and at in-person events (to be listed on under “Upcoming Events” on the right side of this page).