Over the last several months the project team has refined the revised concepts based on feedback from the project management team, advisory committee, key decision makers, and the public. The Salem Alternate Mode Study includes 24 Transportation System Management (TSM) recommendations and 20 Transportation Demand Management (TDM) recommendations to help reduce SOV travel over the Willamette River in Salem. View the maps of the TSM recommendations, which include physical improvements to the alternate mode infrastructure in Salem. Project technical memoranda and appendixes can be viewed in Volume II of the Salem Alternate Modes Study. This project was completed in April 2010.
The City of Salem, the Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem Area Mass Transit District (Cherriots), and the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments (MWVCOG) have started a joint effort to look at ways to reduce single-occupancy vehicle (SOV) travel over the river.
The Salem Willamette River Crossing Alternate Modes Study (Alternate Modes Study) is looking at ways to decrease single-occupancy trips by offering different ways to cross the existing bridges, or any new bridges that develop out of the Salem River Crossing project. The team will consider a mixture of physical improvement projects, operational improvements, and educational/policy efforts to reach the goal of reducing single-occupant trips over the river and to increase the service life of the bridges. The improvements that the project will examine will include:
Although this study is separate from the Salem River Crossing bridge project, the study has several of the same stakeholders, and the results of the Alternate Modes Study will be used by the Salem River Crossing team as they move forward with the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Salem River Crossing project.
The project duration for this study is assumed to be 9 months, from April 2009 through December 2009. A graphic of the Timeline is available.
The Alternate Modes Study has a Stakeholder Advisory Committee who will meet at key milestones to provide guidance to the project team. Agendas and summaries from those meetings will be posted on this website. Contact information for the key agencies involved is below:
The consultant team for this effort is CH2M HILL, with support from Alta Planning + Design and PTV America.
Stakeholder Advisory Committee Meeting No future meetings have been scheduled at this time
Stakeholder Advisory Committee Meeting #3 Monday, November 16, 2009 from 4:00 - 6:00pm
Briefing to Salem City Council September 28, 2009 at 5:30 pm Review the presentation (1.62MB, PDF)
Briefing to SKATS Policy Board October 27, 2009 at 12:00 pm Review the presentation (1.92MB, PDF)
Briefing Cherriots Board of Directors September 24, 2009 at 5:30 pm Review the presentation (2.21MB, PDF)
Stakeholder Advisory Committee Meeting #2 Monday, September 14, 2009 from 4:00 - 6:00pm
Briefing to Citizen Advisory Traffic Commission (CATC) September 10, 2009 at 7:00 am
Project Team Design Workshop Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Stakeholder Advisory Committee Meeting #1 Monday June 22, 2009, 4:00-6:00 pm
Additional Stakeholder Advisory Committee meetings are expected for September and November 2009. Stay tuned to the website for additional information and join the mailing list for periodic updates.
As we move through the Alternate Modes Study, we will post completed work products to this page.
If you would like to learn more about transit demand or system management, please see the following website:
The Alternate Modes study hopes to reduce auto demand over the Willamette River in Salem by at least 8 percent. This starting number came from analysis prepared for the Salem River Crossing project. The documents below describe that process.
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