Pedestrian System
The exhibits provided to the right illustrate the current facilities available in Curry County that enable people to walk and roll. The exhibits also identify how the pedestrian system performs. The information below provides context to support these exhibits. Clicking the exhibit links will take you to a page to review the material and provide your input. In addition, you may also provide comments directly into this interactive map.
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Pedestrian Facilities
Pedestrian facilities in the county are generally limited to four-foot (or wider) paved shoulders along US 101 and sidewalks within Brookings, Gold Beach, and Port Orford. Some County high-order roads include limited sections of sidewalks along select streets in Brookings and Gold Beach. Some marked crossings are also available in the incorporated cities. Pedestrian facilities allow people to travel between essential destinations without a motor vehicle. Essential destinations are also identified in the exhibits to the right.
Pedestrian Qualitative Multimodal Assessment
A Pedestrian Qualitative Multimodal Assessment (QMA) evaluates the quality of roadways for how they currently accommodate pedestrians travel. Roadways receive a rating of "Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor" based on characteristics such as outside travel lane widths, number of travel lanes, shoulder widths, posted speeds, traffic volumes, and presence of sidewalks, sidewalk buffers, and lighting.
Pedestrian Safety Risk
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) conducted a statewide assessment of its highways to evaluate safety risks to pedestrians walking and rolling along its roadway facilities. Safety risks depend on a number of roadway characteristics including functional classification, number of travel lanes, access density, presence of sidewalks, posted speed, zoning of adjacent land, proximity to schools and transit stops, and population density of people 65 years and older. Because the assessment is statewide, the performance results are relative to the results of all other highways across the state. A roadway being in the top 20% (red) indicates it presents some of the highest safety risk to pedestrians statewide.