Do you think Bend needs more street lights?

Asked by KTVZ

429 Votes

Do you think Bend needs more street lights?

47%

Yes, for safety! Yes, for safety!

53%

No, it's been fine. No, it's been fine.

47%

Yes, for safety!

It's unsafe to walk home in some neighborhoods in Bend because of how dark it is. It also forces some drivers to use their brights on residential streets!

It's unsafe to walk home in some neighborhoods in Bend because of how dark it is. It also forces some drivers to use their brights on residential streets! Show Less

7 Comments

poor turtle

I'm for this if they are designed to limit their light pollution and just light what they need to. No need for excess

k san

In some neighborhoods, most definitely! Dark neighborhoods are havens for crime. Light dissuades crime.

Bob Yetter

I see lots of comments on nextdoor about car prowling, break-ins and vandalism. There are over 200 homes in our development and not one single street light! I keep all my outdoor lights on all night.

Kerie Raymond

Studies show that increased light does not increase safety. Just wasting energy, disrupting birds, people's ability to sleep, and pollutes the night sky.

Raymond Meskill

we all like to see.

Cathy Green Horinek

Especially along 97, where there are curves, and at exits or entrances to the parkway.

JohnWayne Kenneth Pool

There are definitely streets or stretches of that could be better lit up. I walk frequently and it would make me more comfortable.

Vernon Budd

These moron's won't read them anyway they don't read the exciting one's

Bob A. Bui

The “morons” won’t “read” the streetlights? LOL.

53%

No, it's been fine.

I don't think any changes need to happen...Bend's a safe place, people get around just fine here.

I don't think any changes need to happen...Bend's a safe place, people get around just fine here. Show Less

5 Comments

Brad Livsey

No lights! More roundy-rounds, they're fun, don't you know!

Deb Dyck

We don't need more light pollution!

Mark Dierbeck

Dark skies are important

Kerie Raymond

I support dark sky compliance. Light pollutes the night sky making it hard for migrating birds, observing the stars, and sleeping! Studies show that light does not increase safety.

Kerie Raymond

I'm encouraged that the City of Bend is replacing lamps with LED lamps that will use less power, emit less heat, and are dark sky compliant by pointing down, not out or up, preserving the night sky.

Ashley Wilson

It’s fine the way it is. We are not a huge city. We have made it the past 30 years I have been here.

Bob Yetter

Yes, but it's grown significantly. I see lots of comments on Nextdoor about car prowling, break-ins and vandalism. More street lights may help minimize this. We do not have a single street light.

Do you believe the POTUS should have broad authority to impose tariffs on other countries?

Asked by KTVZ

202 Votes

Do you believe the POTUS should have broad authority to impose tariffs on other countries?

31%

Yes Yes

69%

No No

31%

Yes

2 Comments

William Schwabe

Because the president wants to put America first and make it as prosperous as it once was. #MAGA

Steven Miles

Exec branch has the responsibility to manage the economy with other countries, congress can’t even produce an annual budget - look at this democrat shutdown, they want to spend another 1.5T on healthcare subsidies- sorry, we are in the hole $35T, wake up America.

69%

No

4 Comments

k san

Congress has the power of the purse, if only they would use it. but they're too scared of being primaried by him. Of course, he should not have 1/3 of the powers he has adopted, whether constitutional or not. He's an abomination!!

Tom Pummer

Trump’s tariffs violate the constitution. Congress holds the nations purse strings. I can’t believe we hardly heard a peep from members of Congress on his actions. Spineless

Rick Martinson

Absolutely not. The Constitution gives that authority to Congress, NOT the executive branch of the government. Trump’s actions are absolutely illegal and unconstitutional. But he doesn’t care, and has been giving Congress and the American People the finger for the past 10 months.

Mike Moreno

Memo to trump...there is a document in this country called the Constitution. Read it, learn it, live it.

Do you support managed homeless camps as a means to get people off the streets?

Asked by KTVZ

147 Votes

Do you support managed homeless camps as a means to get people off the streets?

Do you think Bend needs more street lights?

47%

Yes, for safety! Yes, for safety!

53%

No, it's been fine. No, it's been fine.

47%

Yes, for safety!

53%

No, it's been fine.

Do you believe the POTUS should have broad authority to impose tariffs on other countries?

31%

Yes Yes

69%

No No

31%

Yes

69%

No

Do you support managed homeless camps as a means to get people off the streets?

71%

Yes Yes

29%

No No

71%

Yes

29%

No

Do you think Bend needs more street lights?

47% Yes, for safety! Yes, for safety!

53% No, it's been fine. No, it's been fine.

47% Yes, for safety!

53% No, it's been fine.

Do you believe the POTUS should have broad authority to impose tariffs on other countries?

31% Yes Yes

69% No No

31% Yes

69% No

Do you support managed homeless camps as a means to get people off the streets?

71% Yes Yes

29% No No

71% Yes

29% No

47%

Yes, for safety! Yes, for safety!

53%

No, it's been fine. No, it's been fine.

47%

Yes, for safety!

53%

No, it's been fine.

31%

Yes Yes

69%

No No

31%

Yes

69%

No

71%

Yes Yes

29%

No No

71%

Yes

29%

No