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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1973)
Rides top is now ‘99 percent complete’ By JAMES RUSSELL Of the Emerald Ridestop, a system of marked locations for student bitch-hikers, is now scheduled to go into effect on Monday, Jan.22. The system, developed by a group oi students in Urban Planning, is “99 per cent complete,” according to Dena Wild, a Rides top coor dinator. Wild says that the system is “almost ready to go, and we’re going to start making noises pretty soon.” Pinal plans call for a group of military See Bees to put up the Rides top signs during the Jan. 20 weekend. What is RideStop? Ac Car pool forming to stop resource waste Need a ride to campus every day? Concerned about carbon monoxide pollution? Do you have a car but can’t afford to drive it? If so, maybe the new ASUO Survival Center car pool can help you. According to Mike Dot ton, director of the Survival Center, the pool was framed in an at tempt to cut down on the waste of resources involved. “According to statistics there are now 1.2 people in every car,” he said. “If the present trend continues, by I960 there will be less than one person per car. When someone drives a tan and a half of metal with a 300 horsepower engine to class every day, its a tremendous waste of resources.” The first attempt at signing people up was done at a table set up during registration. Ac cording to Dot ton, the table wasn’t as successful as it could have been. “But we do expect that it will be a growing thing,” he said. “A person has three choices,” Dot ton said. “He can drive all the time, ride all the time, or alternate.” “Once we know a person’s schedule and address, we match them according to the probable route they would follow,” he said. “After the match is made, we just give the rider’s name to the driver and let them make the financial arrangements.” After the program is underway the Survival Cento* will keep a bulletin board in their office with information on the pool and also offering rides on a day-to-day bans. The pool presently contains six people from Corvallis, two from Albany, two from Roseburg, and a number of people from Elmira and Venita areas. The rest is Student attacked An apparent attempted strangulation of a 19-year-old female University student oc curred on December 20, ac cording to police. The student said she escaped a man who attempted to place a length of rope or clothesline over her head. He then fled. The student said that the at tempted strangulation occurred about 6 p.m. near 13th Avenue and Alder Street. The police searched the area but could find no trace of the assailant. The student described the man as being Caucasian, about 25 years old with a height of 6 feet, one inch. She said he had a short beard and a thin face, and wore a dark stocking cap, a blue pea coat and a black gloves. She also told police that she had never seen the man before. largely made up of people from the Eugene-Springfield ares. To date, there are about one hundred people signed up for the pool. “The pool presently has room for 130 additional riders,” Dotton said. Anyone interested in joining the car pool can pick up a form and information in the Survival Center office. 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Essentially, it provides a site for students to wait at, marked by a sign, and an efficient routing system to facilitate their daily commuting process. Wild states that RideStop is a “system of transitory routes, with distinct signs which will designate each RideStop location, at many different spots.” Also “like hitchhiking, people wait at those specified locations, and ideally a motorist will pick you up”. But she warns “it is still entirely voluntary”. It always will be. The RideStop system will originate at major con centrations of student residence and follow major traffic corridors which feed into major collection points, such as the University or Lane Community College. A system like this one relies heavily on acceptance by the general public for success, and future plans include ex pansion and an increase of ef ficiency thru additional study. Funded by the University with a grant of $735, equally matched by LCC (also included in the program), just over $425 was recently spent by the Urban Planning group to purchase all RideStop signs and pay fra- the required insurance fee. Ap proximently five cents is spent in RideStop, taken out of incidental fees, for each individual student on the University. Wild also projects that “RideStop is still a very flexible, and very inexpensive program”. Wild says, “when you think about regular hitchiking, this is alot safer both for the motorist and for the hitchiker”; “nobody pays anything, and the motorist can pull out of the lane of traffic, much like a bus, and still be able (Continued on Page 18) CAMPUS annual INVENTORY SALE NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF VERY SPECIAL PRICES.STOREWIDE REDUCTIONS ON FALL AND WINTER MER CHANDISE SWEATERS Entire Holiday Stock plus a special purchase of angoras and acrylics in a variety ot styles and colors from a Famous West Coast Maker. 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