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
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An apparent attempted
strangulation of a 19-year-old
female University student oc
curred on December 20, ac
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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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carding to Wild, RideStop is “a
transportation system that is
roughly based on hitchhiking”,
and is important in that “it will
allow students to get from their
homes to the campus, or to
anywhere within the Eugene or
Springfield area”. 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
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