Speed Limit Change in City of Bend

Following community input and engineering analysis, speed limits will be lowered in coming days on the following road:

• NW Shevlin Park Road between Mt. Washington Roundabout and 200 feet west of NW Park Commons Drive - from 45 mph to 40 mph

The new speed limit signs will have orange warning flags on top for a few weeks to call attention to the changes.

These speed changes were initiated by a combination of citizen requests and City staff in response to changing traffic and development along these corridors.

In Oregon, speeds for roads within the City that are not highways or local residential streets

– such as the aforementioned road sections -- are set by the Department of Transportation. The new speed limits are established based on a traffic study that looks at existing driving speeds, road characteristics, adjacent land use, access locations and more. It can take up to a year to complete this speed study. Most of these requests were started this past summer.

The City asks drivers to pay attention to the new speed changes and be aware of conditions. Oregon’s basic rule speed law requires driving at the speed that is safe for conditions – this may be a speed slower than the posted speed. With winter here, it is especially important to pay attention to speed. Drive safely.