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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1968)
•CLQSUK& LIGHTS Traffic Outline Routes Bypass Campus By CHRIS HERMANN Of the Emerald Officer M. R. Michaelson of the Eugene police department, outlined several alternate routes drivers can use to avoid conges tion and hazards of campus in tersections. Michaelson said that 13th Ave. is the main street that is causing an unnecessary prob lem. Three-fifths of the traf fic on 13th, he said, is travel ing east. Most of these drivers aren’t students but do use 13th to get to Franklin Blvd., he said. Michaelson stated that these drivers are not aware that they could avoid crosswalks and stop signals along 13th. He pointed out that cars going east on 13th could out-skirt the campus by turning left onto Kincaid. “Most people aren’t aware that they can turn left there, even if they’re in the right lane,” he said. After traveling two blocks on Kincaid, drivers can take a right turn on 11th Ave., which takes them directly onto Frank lin. WANT BETTER COUNTY GOVERNMENT! VOtl JACK CRAIG DEMOCRAT LANE COUNTY COMMISSIONER re. POL. adv. CRAIS FOR COMMISSIONER COMMITTEE tYNH MOORE CHRM. 3191 EMERALD ST., EIIOINI Michaelson said that by going this way drivers bypass campus congestion, including the inter section at 13th and Agate St., where a number of accidents have occurred. Michaelson said students go ing to parking lots off 13th could also use this route via Frank lin rather than going through campus. “They’ll get there faster with less slow-ups,” he said. From Franklin a right turn onto 13th brings the driver directly into the parking area. This also eliminates a left turn into the parking area, Mi chaelson said, which means driv ers don’t have to yield to on coming traffic. The parking lot just east of Emerald Hall will be closed soon to start construction on a new science building; a further rea son to avoid 13th, he said. Parking area in the 17th Ave. Columbia St. area, and around Hayward Field can be reached by skirting the campus also. Drivers coming west from the Patterson St. area should use 18th Ave. as far as Agate. From Agate they can use 17th or keep going north to 15th Ave., which goes by several lot en trances. People who use 13th, Michael son stated, have to go through several crosswalks, besides the traffic tie-ups at University and Onyx Sts. He said when the closure lights are working be tween classes along this street, drivers think they can sit and wait until they go off. This backs SICKS’ MUSIC CITY A most complete selection or ioik guitars, select from YAMAHA_HAGSTROM-ARIA MARTIN, and others. A complete rental with op tional purchase program. Open Evenings ’till 9:00 Edgewood Shopping Center 40th and Donald — Phone 345-8289 COFFEE POT’S ALWAYS ON up traffic, when it needs to keep flowing through at all times, the officer commented. He said that some people even drive into the closed area with out realizing that they cannot. “It would be so much simpler, quicker and safer if they peri metered the campus.” It would cut down 34,000 cars a day go ing through the campus if driv ers would go around, Michaelson said. 'Fabra Dam' Footbridae Plans Aired Autzen Stadium footbridge construction and Alton Baker Park development plans were explained to an ad hoc stu dent committee Wednesday by Howard Beauford, a represen tative of the Lane County Planning Council. The plan proposes to install a “fabra dam” across the river. This type of dam is inflated and is supported by a concrete foun dation. Beauford said that this foundation could then be used to support a footbridge to Aut zen Stadium and therefore “kill two birds with one stone.” The dam will control the flow of water along the park and di vert some to channels in the park itself. It will also serve to revamp the Mill Race by channeling water through it. The cost of the nine-foot-high dam is estimated at $250,000. Beauford said that developing the 500-acre park would be a piece meal operation and there are a number of ways to fi nance it. Two of the possibili ties mentioned were the open space program under the De partment of Urban Renewal and and Land Conservation Pro gram. Another possibility is through the creation of a park and recre ation district, but this demands the coordination between the county government and the governments of Eugene and Springfield. FIND OUT ABOUT Study Abroad GERMANY FRANCE SPAIN JAPAN ITALY EGYPT YUGOSLAVIA Friday, Nov. 1 — 3:00 p.m. Rm, 101 EMU Sponsored by I.E.C. 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