Better Streets
with Smart Growth America
What can we learn from other communities as the City of Eugene and Lane Transit District explore changes along Highway 99 and River Road?
Please register to reserve your space for any or all of these free public events.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Highway 99 Walk Audit
9:00 – 11:30 am
Highway 99 Town Hall
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Petersen Barn Community Center (870 Berntzen Rd, Eugene)
Lunch provided
River Road Walk Audit
3:00 – 5:30 pm
River Road Town Hall
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Howard Elementary School (700 Howard Ave, Eugene)
Snacks & drinks provided
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Smart Growth America
Smart Growth America helps create healthy, prosperous, and resilient places to live for all people through research, advocacy, and direct community support. Their work spans housing and land use, transportation, and economic development to find solutions to communities’ most pressing needs.
Dustin Robertson is a Senior Program Manager, Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America. He focuses on Complete Streets and the intersections of mobility, health, and equity. His work informs best practices and research, building capacity at state and local levels across the country.
Mehr Mukhtar is a Senior Policy Associate at Transportation for America. In this role, she contributes to policy and advocacy that enhances climate resilience in the transportation system, supports equitable and sustainable public transportation, and advances the national passenger rail network.
Better Streets for People and Businesses
The events with Smart Growth America are part of a larger effort to build support for streets that are safe, practical, and comfortable for everyone. BEST supports the community in pursuing a simple 3-step process:
- Problems: Identify which streets today need to be better.
- Plans: Review what local governments are proposing to do.
- Solutions: Advance broadly supported options for moving forward tomorrow.
As BEST begins work around Highway 99 and River Road, we are enlisting the expertise of Smart Growth America. BEST is also wrapping up work around Franklin Boulevard.
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