Supplement to Oregon Daily Emerald
Getting there used to be a simple matter of plod
ding along, one foot in front of the other, until the
destination arrived. Travel was slow, but so was life.
Now, life's jacked up its tempo and transportation
has followed suit.
Airplanes flit cross country, subways whoosh in the
night and the Concorde jetliner taxis for takeoff. Au
tomobiles, too, are healthy participants in the transpor
tation affair.
One person per car, one person per car, the auto
parade winds down every highway with-gas-guzzling
furor. People say it’s got to stop. With mind-boggling
statistics, scientists declare it must. Transportation, they
say, is responsible for 25 per cent of the United States’
Ptioto by Dennis Hickok
energy consumption.
Wheels turn. Motors whir. And the sky muddies in
the fit of pollution.
These pages suggest a few alternatives to energy
intensive, air-polluting travel.
For starters, there’s a few train ideas on Page 3, and
for the inexpensive way to go, see Page 6 for wagon
pulling tricks. Bikes, the most popular alternative mode
of transportation, has a two-page spread on Pages 4
and 5.
And just for a touch of the bizarre, E.G. White-Swift
investigates Eugene’s canal potentials on Page 8.
For those of you tired of Detroit’s chrome-plated
V-8, jacked-up, super-charged motor carriages, the
Emerald now gives you a glance at several...