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This is the first of a series of month-long celebrations will be filled with:
🔧 DIY bike maintenance workshops
🚍 Bus + bike skills
🗺️ Route planning help and safety tips
🚴‍♂️ Weekly community rides and activities

Check out all the events we have planned and RSVP on Eventbrite: bit.ly/SalemBikeMonth

The west side of Battle Creek Rd SE between Foxhaven Dr SE and Eastlake Dr SE, alongside Mahonia Crossing, now has a shared use path. With this new grade separated bikeway connecting with the Woodscape Park Pathway, there is now a protected and safe way to travel running about 1/3 of a mile.

Thanks to our advocacy at the Bond Oversight Committee, Salem now has its first “Bike Box” at the intersection of Liberty and Trade. A bike box is a designated area at the front of travel lanes at stop lights that provide bicyclists with a safe and visible way to get ahead of stopped vehicles.

We mobilized the community to provided valuable comment to the Oregon Department of Transportation on their Urban Design Verification of the 99 E Corridor through Salem. Once upgraded, this corridor would serve as one of the key pieces of our proposed north-sourth crosstown corridor.

Right-hand turn lanes which cross bike lanes are a dangerous conflict point. Our advocacy prompted the City to put down more green paint at key intersections. This year, City staff painted key intersections increasing the visibility of people who bike.

The City of Salem received grant funding for its first electric mini street sweeper, which will open up new opportunities for safer bike infrastructure, like protected bike lanes. SBV identified the funding opportunity, encouraged the City to apply, and wrote a letter of support.

On Commercial Street SE from Oxford Street SE to Madrona Avenue SE the City installed new buffered bike lanes, a bicycle signal to cross Liberty Road S, and a rapid flashing beacon at Triangle Drive SE. This stretch is a significant step forward on our proposed north-south crosstown corridor.

Your support has also helped us create a powerful community of riders. We are a volunteer effort and can't do it alone. Please donate now to see this work continue!

You can donate at www.salembikevision.org/donate