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Main Street: Government Plans
According to the City of Springfield, “Main Street is consistently ranked as one of the most unsafe city streets in Oregon based on the severity and frequency of traffic crashes. The Oregon Department of Transportation and the City must address this problem to save lives, reduce injuries, and lessen property damage due to crashes. The purpose of the Main Street Safety Project is to select infrastructure solutions that will make Main Street safer for people walking, biking, driving, and taking transit.
“On June 20, 2022, the Springfield City Council adopted a resolution to create an alternative plan for Main Street safety improvements. This action means the existing Draft Facility Plan is not moving forward for further consideration.”
Learn in detail what the City of Springfield is planning for Main Street.
Key resources
Key efforts around Main Street:
- Intersection Safety Project: OR 126B at 54th Street (ODOT)
- Common Sense for Springfield
- Main Street Safety Project (City of Springfield)
- E-Update: Change in Project Direction (6/27/22)
- Fact Sheet #6: Draft Facility Plan (updated 3/20/22)
- Draft Facility Plan (Jan. ’22)
Supporting plans
Other plans relating to Main Street:
Further reading
News stories and views about Main Street:
- 10 years since tragic deaths of 3 children crossing Springfield’s Main Street (KLCC, 2/20/25)
- VIDEO: ODOT working on 54th and Main Street in Springfield (KEZI, 4/15/24)
- Work starts soon in Springfield (ODOT, 3/28/24)
- Community members talk safety, future of Springfield’s Main Street (KEZI, 10/5/23)
- PROGRAM: Better Streets for People and Businesses (Springfield City Club, 10/5/23)
- VIDEO (Springfield City Club at Facebook)
- PRESENTATION (BEST at Google Slides)
- Main Street Shenanigans: The 2023 Springfield’s the Block Party shuts down Main Street for a good time (Eugene Weekly, 9/7/23)
- Springfield’s The Block Party to temporarily close Main Street, detours announced (KVAL, 9/5/23)
- 21-year-old man arrested after fatal hit-and-run crash in Springfield (Register-Guard, 6/28/23)
- ODOT planning safety changes to Springfield intersection (KEZI, 2/27/23)
- Online Open House – Intersection Safety Project: OR 126B at 54th Street (ODOT, 2/27/23)
- Analysis: The trouble with Main Street (Claire Shanley, Chronicle, 2/9/23)
- The Trouble with Main Street (Claire Shanley, Medium, 11/21/22)
- Rob Zako: Pedestrian safety requires political will (Whole Community News, 7/14/22)
- Change on Main Street: Springfield architect talks of looking at building’s past to design its future (Eugene Weekly, 7/7/22)
- Springfield scraps Main Street draft facility plan, new approach in the works (Register-Guard, 6/29/22)
- Springfield pumping the brakes on Main Street project amid community concerns (Register-Guard, 5/11/22)
- Springfield will not move forward with proposed Main Street changes (KVAL, 6/21/22)
- Springfield businesses raise concerns about Main Street project (KEZI, 3/3/22)
- Some Springfield businesses & residents not happy with Main Street Safety Project (KVAL, 2/16/22)
- Some Springfield residents not happy with proposed Main Street Safety Project (KMTR, 2/15/22)
- Some unhappy with direction of Main Street Safety Project in Springfield (KEZI, 2/14/22)
- Springfield police identify hit-and-run victim (Register-Guard, 8/15/20)
- Time running out to comment on Main Street upgrades (Register-Guard, 11/26/18)
- Springfield seeks input to make Main Street safer (KMTR, 11/8/18)
- Springfield residents who don’t feel safe on Main Street share input with City (KVAL, 11/8/18)
- Springfield City Council to discuss Main Street safety campaign (Register-Guard, 9/5/16)
- EDITORIAL: Making it safer (Register-Guard, 8/5/2016)
- Speed Limit Reduced On Deadly Stretch of Springfield’s Main Street (KLCC, 8/4/16)
- State acts on deadly four miles of Main (Register-Guard, 8/4/2016)
- Speed limit falls to 35 mph on Hwy 126/Main Street in Springfield (KMTR, 8/2/16)
- Speed limit drops to 35 mph on Hwy 126/Main Street in Springfield (KVAL, 8/2/16)
- Springfield, LTD drop plan to widen Main Street by more than 30 feet (Register-Guard, 7/19/2016)
- Vision Zero’s Vision: No Traffic Deaths (AARP, 7/1/16)
- MARINA HAJEK & STEVE MOE: Let’s slam the brakes on rising traffic fatalities (guest viewpoint, Register-Guard, 4/20/16)
- EDITORIAL: When a tragic accident is just a tragic accident (Oregonian, 5/9/15)
- Oregon driver who ran red light, killed 3 children will face no charges (Oregonian, 5/5/15)
- ‘We just wanted to come by to show our sorrow for the family’ (KVAL, 2/24/15)
- Three children ages four to eight killed and their mother left critically injured after being struck by pickup truck at busy intersection (Daily Mail, 2/23/15)
- Neighbors decry intersection where 3 children died: ‘Too many people have been killed here’ (Oregonian, 2/23/15)
See also
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Last updated 3/12/25.