Transportation Engineering

Project description: Replace the existing one-lane bridge with a new two-lane bridge. The current bridge, built in 1958, is reaching the end of its functional life and is weight-limited. The 18-month construction project includes building a temporary detour bridge, removing the old bridge, building the new bridge and then removing the detour bridge.

Updated: 6/12/19

Status: Completed

Consultant: OBEC Consulting Engineers

Contractor:  JAL Construction, Bend, Oregon

Funding:

• $2.9 million - Federal Highway Administration Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program
• $330,000 - County Road Fund

You may be interested to know:

• The bridge is a critical life line for residents, as this is the sole access to several homes
• The bridge is considered structurally deficient and functionally obsolete.
• The bridge has three spans (100-foot steel pony truss and two timber approach spans).

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Realign Central Point Road along the northbound and southbound approaches to New Era Road. Flashing red lights will also be attached to the stop signs.

Why

To improve the safety of the intersection by eliminating the intersection skew, improving intersection sight distance and improving stop sign visibility.

Schedule

June 2021 to May 2022

Funding

• Project estimate is $1.6 million
• Funding is provided from County Road Funds including State 2017 Safety Fund.

System Development Charges are one-time fees charged to new development to help pay a portion of the costs associated with building capital facilities to meet needs created by growth. The PSDC fee is based on the specific impact a development is expected to have on the District's population and employment.

TABLE 5.4
SQUARE FEET PER EMPLOYEE
(recommended guidelines from Metro Employment Density Study)

The North Clackamas Park and Recreation District provides a variety of park and recreational facilities and a wide-range of services, including: aquatics, community athletics, special events and specialized recreation programs. District parks, facilities and services are important community resources benefiting both existing and future District residents, businesses, non-resident employees and visitors.

Project description: The asphalt concrete approaches at the Wiess Bridge will be repaired. The asphalt concrete at this bridge is in poor condition and needs repair. This location experiences heavy truck loads and relatively high speeds at the bridge. Repair of the approaches will provide safer movement of vehicles and have a smoother transition and less wearing impact to the existing bridge structure.

Updated: 5/14/19

Status: Completed

Funding:

• Construction estimate is $130,000
• Funding is provided from county road funds

Recently, Clackamas County has begun an exciting new portable radar sign program. These signs are an effective traffic calming device that can be used on any county road in Clackamas County with a posted speed limit. Because many roadways in Clackamas County do not qualify for traffic calming such as speed bumps because of their high speed or volume of traffic, these signs offer an important alternative for residents challenged with speeding issues on their roadway.

The signs dynamically display the approaching speed of a vehicle to remind drivers of the legal speed limit to both improve safety and livability of county roadways. The signs do not take photos for the purpose of administering speeding tickets, which is illegal on roads in Oregon counties outside the cities. The signs have the capability to collect traffic speed data allowing us to study the effectiveness of the sign and forward speed information to law enforcement officials.

The signs are being rotated from location to location on a monthly basis and can be requested by filling out our online Traffic Concern Form.

Three of our four signs were purchased by the Clackamas County Safe Communities Program, a cooperative program with the Clackamas County Sheriffs Office and Department of Transportation and Development and is grant funded through the Transportation Safety Division of ODOT. The program is administered through a cooperative arrangement among the Clackamas County Traffic Safety Commission, Clackamas County Safe Communities, Clackamas County Traffic Engineering and Clackamas County Roads.