News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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By this fall, a driver will be able to get from Sage Meadow to the Threewind shopping center without ever driving along Cascade Avenue.
The new Barclay Road extension running from the Sisters Industrial Park to Highway 20 is on schedule for completion at the beginning of November.
Excavators have moved the pond at Ponderosa Lodge at the west end of Sisters to make way for the new road intersection with Highway 20.
The Barclay Road extension will run across Forest Service property.
The final cost is expected to be $840,000, funded through grants. The City of Sisters put up $10,000 (some through in-kind services), mostly to fund an environmental assessment.
Another new road, called McKinney Butte Road, will start at the same intersection and run south-southwest to the new Sisters High School.
The school district is responsible for funding that road.
"I told the school district that road must be operational by the time the school opens," City Planner Neil Thompson said.
Once both roads are completed, a driver could drive directly from subdivisions along Camp Polk Road all the way to the McKenzie Highway (242).
This new road network creates, in effect, a local bypass route that takes some of the local traffic pressure off of an increasingly congested Cascade Avenue.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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