Main Ave. project is underway

Construction has begun on the Main Avenue Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project.

Work began February 28, and will continue for the next three months. The project is starting on Pine Street and will work its way east. The Main Avenue improvement project is funded by the Oregon Department of Transportation's Bicycle and Pedestrian division as a grant-funded project, enhancing pedestrian and bicycle safety within the city of Sisters.

Construction crews are allowing access and placing signage to let customers know that businesses are still in operation during construction work.

The work on Pine Street is designed to provide parallel parking and striped bike lanes. As the project works eastward on Main Avenue, crews will widen and reconstruct existing sidewalks and improve the storm drainage system. There will be additional streetscape features like lighting and

landscaping.

Perhaps the most visible alteration will be the creation of back-in diagonal parking, which is supposed to make the street safer for bicyclists and other traffic by having drivers looking forward while pulling out of a parking spot.

The project also includes the same kind of work done on Larch Street.