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The City of Oregon City has launched a transportation and parking survey for downtown workers and visitors this month. The City is hoping to better understand how people travel to downtown and how they use various transportation and parking options in order to help guide and support future investments and improvements to transportation and parking downtown.
The City plans to collect this data every few years and track the data over time. The effort is part of a larger Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan for downtown that aims to improve travel options downtown and make accessing the downtown area safer, more convenient, and more equitable. The City has convened a TDM working group of downtown stakeholders to implement the plan.
The survey is available online through November 27 and takes about 5 minutes to complete. Everyone who completes the survey can be entered to win raffle prizes including a gift card to Black Ink/White Rabbit coffee shop, elevator t-shirts, and ornaments, and Oregon City 175th Anniversary blankets.
City staff and volunteers from the downtown Oregon City Association have already collected over 200 responses from both downtown employees and patrons. The survey is drawing out many opinions about on-street parking, bicycle access downtown, and the hours of the municipal elevator, among other issues.
Visiting Downtown will be easier in the near future, as the City is adding signage allowing after-hours public parking at City Hall. The City just legalized “After Hours Public Parking,” which allows businesses to make their lots available to the public in the evenings and weekends when offices are closed. The TDM working group is also engaging with downtown parking lot owners to do the same with their parking lots, which will add parking capacity downtown without having to build any new parking. “TDM is all about using space and resources efficiently, squeezing all the value we can from the assets we already have Downtown,” says Kelly Reid, City planner, and project manager for the TDM Working Group.
To take the survey, visit bit.ly/octravelsurvey.