Tyler Avenue Neighborhood Bikeway

Since last fall, the City has finalized the corridor design of the Tyler Avenue (East) Neighborhood Bikeway Project. Now, the City is focusing on safety treatments at the intersection of NW Tyler Avenue and NW 9th Street.

To understand public sentiment about these safety treatments, the City is collecting public feedback via  this survey . Your feedback will help the City understand public sentiment about the improvements.

This survey will be open from March 12, 2025 to April 4, 2025. Afterwards, the City will review and take into consideration the public responses.

To view the design of these safety treatments, click here:  intersection design for NW Tyler Avenue and NW 9th Stree t. To learn more about the Tyler Ave (East) Neighborhood Bikeway project,  click here .

After the June open house, the project team has continued to refine the bikeway design to reach 50% design. This next step in designing the bikeway also includes considering feedback heard from our June in-person open house and online survey. Updates based on community feedback include:

• At NW 19 ^th  Street:
  • Adding a flex-post on tuff curb hardened centerline to prevent northbound lefts from NW Tyler Avenue to NW 19 ^th  Street
  • Adding right-in, right-out only signs at NW 19 ^th  Street and NW Tyler Avenue
  • Including painted curb extensions on NW 19 ^th  Street , extending into NW Tyler Avenue
  • Adding a new stop sign at NW 19 ^th  Street
  • Extending yellow painted curb to allow vehicle passage around new hardened centerline and parked car before first driveway on south side of NW Tyler Avenue
• At NW 18 ^th  Street: Adding a speed hump to add more traffic calming
• At NW 13th Street: Adjusting speed humps to allow 4 feet of space between face of curb and speed hump for bike-friendly accessibility
• At NW 11 ^th  Street: Adding yellow painted curbs on all approaches and departures of intersection to prohibit parking and daylight corners
• At NW 10 ^th  Street: Adding yellow painted curb on SW corner on NW 10 ^th  Street to provide improved visibility of vehicles traveling northbound
• At NW 6 ^th  Street: Adding new curb ramps and ALL WAY signs below STOP signs to reinforce the all-way stop
• At NW 4 ^th  Street: Confirming new crosswalk markings in coordination with ODOT

Many of these changes reflect public comments on increasing traffic calming treatments, such as the new speed hump at NW 18th St. Both speed humps have 4 feet of clearance between the speed hump and the face of curb to allow bike passage at roadway level. Changes at NW 4 ^th  Street reflect updated information as the City collaborates with ODOT.

 The changes at NW 19 ^th  Street reflect public request to reduce speed from turns between NW Kings Boulevard, NW Tyler Avenue, and NW 19 ^th  Street due to the large curb radii. As a result, the project team incorporated a hardened centerline that effectively prevents left turns from NW Tyler Ave onto NW 19 ^th  Street. The updated design at NW 19 ^th  Street also includes curb extensions to narrow the street, reducing crossing distance and slowing vehicle turning movements.

Additionally at NW 19 ^th  Street, a yellow painted curb on the south side of NW Tyler Ave was extended to daylight the intersection, keeping one parking space west of the first driveway. As eastbound vehicles maneuver between this parking space and the hardened centerline, a “yield street” is created, meaning only one vehicle can pass at a time.

No treatments are being shown on NW 9 ^th  Street and NW Tyler Avenue intersection during this project phase. A separate project will determine safe crossing treatments in coordination with other City of Corvallis projects that are currently studying the NW 9 ^th  Street corridor. The project team will be looking for public input on proposed treatments in a separate round of public engagement. Information regarding that round of public engagement events and surveys will be available on the  Corvallis Neighborhood Bikeways website  with updates being broadcast through the Active Transportation Newsletter (subscribe  here ).

The City wants your feedback on the updated design of the Tyler Avenue Neighborhood Bikeway. Please  click this link  to view the updated design and use  this link  to provide your feedback. This survey will be open from September 13 - 27, 2024.

A Neighborhood Bikeway provides benefits for all road users, such as:

• Providing a comfortable, safe, and attractive place to bicycle for people of all ages and abilities.
• Enhancing wayfinding through signage and pavement markings for bicycle riders.
• Raising awareness to the street’s status as a bikeway.
• Helping pedestrians, residents and other users use the street by adding crossing improvements, traffic calming, landscaping, wayfinding, and by reducing automobile speeds and volumes.

To change Tyler Avenue into a low-volume, low-speed street where people feel comfortable walking, biking, and rolling, the City of Corvallis is planning to implement street treatments, such as:

• Improved crossings for bicycling
• Wayfinding signs
• Curb extensions
• Speed humps
• Pavement markings
• Improved crossings for walking
• Neighborhood traffic circles