Have you had trouble parking in Downtown Bend this summer?

Asked by KTVZ

1170 Votes

Have you had trouble parking in Downtown Bend this summer?

74%

Yes, I can never find a spot! Yes, I can never find a spot!

26%

No, I always find parking. No, I always find parking.

74%

Yes, I can never find a spot!

This summer parking in Downtown Bend has been very difficult. I can never find a parking spot.

This summer parking in Downtown Bend has been very difficult. I can never find a parking spot. Show Less

11 Comments

Sandra Kennel

I no longer go downtown to shop because parking has been too difficult for me to find without walking several blocks to the store I want to go to.

Roger Engstrom

Agreed !

Brad Livsey

Never any parking.........ever! I don't spend my money there anymore and neither do a vast number of my friends and acquaintances. Shopping needs to be enjoyable.......not there for quite sometime.

Marily Sylva Badger

I try to avoid downtown Bend like the plague. Parking is a joke!

Chad Sant

$$$

Roger Engstrom

Parking app is impossible to use, never again !

Steve Martin

I have lived in Bend for over 50 years and until this summer have totally supported the down town business. Now I go to the shopping centers and also use Amazon. I don't like this but have no choice until downtown business forces the city to find an answer to this. Maybe downtown should be for the

Gabe West

They need another parking garage

Roger Engstrom

Parking app SUCKS! TOTAL BS, WE REFUSE TO EAT, SHOP, OR ATTEND EVENTS DOWNTOWN TILL THIS EITHER GOES AWAY OR IS CAPABLE OF USING !!! IMPOSSIBLE TO USE UNLESS TECH SAVY !!!

Johnny Mooney

I'm disabled, so parking in the public garage is too far for me to walk sometimes with my heart condition. More disabled parking would be nice downtown by the store fronts.

Roger Engstrom

Also agreed !

26%

No, I always find parking.

I haven't had any difficulties finding parking.

I haven't had any difficulties finding parking. Show Less

5 Comments

Stefan Kwiatkowski

Seriously, this shouldn't even be an concern in the 4th largest city in the state. We have bicycles and transit for a reason. Parking is irrelevant for those of us who ride buses or bikes. If you want lots of free parking and car dependency, please move to Burns or to John Day. It's 2021, not 1961.

Stephanie McMillan

I didn’t go downtown. It’s too full of tourists!

Tarasem

I avoid going to Bend as much as possible. I don't like anything about being in any big city. As for parking there, I only go to medical facilities and sometimes the Northside malls, so parking is generally not an issue. Driving in Bend is much worse than finding parking in Bend.

Sussie Due

The only time I have trouble finding a parking spot is when someone without disabled plates or a hanger decides to park in a disabled zone.

Kenneth Emmrich

No, I never have trouble finding parking in downtown Bend because I never go to downtown Bend.

Do you agree with Oregon's temporary suspension of high school graduation testing?

Asked by KTVZ

230 Votes

Do you agree with Oregon's temporary suspension of high school graduation testing?

9%

Yes! Yes!

91%

No! No!

9%

Yes!

With the impacts of the pandemic and remote learning, as well as other issues, a review of whether they are fair and good for all is warranted.

With the impacts of the pandemic and remote learning, as well as other issues, a review of whether they are fair and good for all is warranted. Show Less

0 Comments

No one has commented yet

91%

No!

Testing is a key tool to make sure graduates have basic skills down, and shouldn't be paused for revision!

Testing is a key tool to make sure graduates have basic skills down, and shouldn't be paused for revision! Show Less

6 Comments

John Philo

Why are we neglecting our students and dumbing down education? Oregon has become a backward state. Appalachia west. Sad!

Dianne Price

Now kids are going to graduate, even if they're failing their classes?? Should NEVER HAPPEN!!

Michael Ratcliff

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!? NO!! NO!! You are making our next generation functionally illiterate. When it comes to knowing what this generation needs to sign, (such as contracts, loans etc.) they will have no clue what they are signing because they can't read, write, do math. be in debt fast! NO!!!

Pamela Joe

Kids are not even going to try now nor will the teachers

Robert Northrup

This reflects the failure of Oregon's education system. Is it more focused toward social issues than reading, writing and arithmetic?

Michael Ratcliff

OF COURSE IT IS. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR KIDS ANYMORE. IT IS ALL ABOUT STAYING IN CONTROL OF EVERYONE. THE LESS A PERSON KNOWS, THE EASIER TO CONTROL.

Do you think Bend should take more steps to remove homeless camps on public property?

Asked by KTVZ

1294 Votes

Do you think Bend should take more steps to remove homeless camps on public property?

89%

Yes, more must be done! Yes, more must be done!

11%

No, that won't solve the problem! No, that won't solve the problem!

89%

Yes, more must be done!

Bend has removed one homeless camp on a public street, and more legal removals need to be part of the solution

Bend has removed one homeless camp on a public street, and more legal removals need to be part of the solution Show Less

12 Comments

💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

Homeless camps should not be set up in the city, especially not in residential or commercial areas, There should be county or BLM land available on the outskirts of the city, if you drive along China Hat road there are already a lot of homeless people camping out on BLM land.

Geniene May

No not BLM land either. We used to go out there for fun, now we don’t cause it’s too scary.

Deb Kizer Dyck

It's insane to expect Bend city property to fill up with trash as it is bound to do with homelessness. We need to be responsible to our citizens and keep Bend from degrading into cities like Salem and Portland!

J M Schmidt

I drive by Hunnel Road everyday on my work. I have seen everything from drugged out, to drug deals to pants on the ground. It's not safe for anyone with the growing pile of refuse and abandon derelict vehicles. There have been efforts to relocate and help , yet the people living seem to want that.

Vernon Budd

Yes Bend looks like a Dump site run them out of Oregon period

Andrea Burke

I wasn't allowed to when I was homeless and even got cited for it, I don't think others should be an exception pandemic or not

Sussie Due

Its making it easier to not have a reason to work and support a household.

Jer W

Don't enable them and don't allow encampments.

Ben Hargis

Unfortunately Bend wants to create camps........

Russell Parker

It is not helping anyone by letting then live on the streets and in the conditions that I personally see on a daily basis. Quit letting people build million dollar homes and put in some housing that will give these people a place to live and give them a hand up, not a hand out!

Teresa Parsons

These homeless camps huge communities now and will just keep getting bigger if the city doesn't do something now!!

Gabe West

Build more homeless shelters or put one up on china hat road

11%

No, that won't solve the problem!

Kicking the homeless from one spot, just to disperse, does little if anything to solve the real issue!

Kicking the homeless from one spot, just to disperse, does little if anything to solve the real issue! Show Less

4 Comments

Charles Lingle

Bend has a large service type of employment. For a lot of these people, low cost housing near places they work barely exist. Add to that the many who are homeless because of wildfires, it will get worse. Time for the state, county, city to create housing. People need a place to live with dignity

Mike Everstone

Another dumb question from news 21. Who is doing the questions this week???

madison johnston

A lot of these People are drug addicts & need rehab, housing, and mental health help, & The ones that were affected by fire or Covid lost everything or almost everything are trying to figure out how to rebuild their lives from the ground up oh moving them is not going to solve the problem