Destination Eugene:
RR may grow
By JUDY PETREE
Of the Emerald
Additional train service could
come to Eugene and other areas,
depending on conclusions of the
Willamette Valley Rail Study
Committee.
The committee met in the EMU
Tuesday to discuss the feasibility
of providing additional rail service
between Eugene and Portland.
Twenty-five local citizens and offi
cials showed up to present their
thoughts on the matter.
The committee was appointed
by the state legislature to study
the possibility of increasing train
service in the Willamette Valley by
1979.
Additional service between
Eugene and Portland may be set
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up on a trial basis later this year.
The committee will work this year
on a program to be submitted to
the Legislature early in 1979.
During the meeting the commit
tee approved a proposed budget
for 1978. The committee also ag
reed on a work program for the
long-range study of rail service in
the valley. Both documents will be
submitted to the Oregon
Emergency Board for approval.
Sen. Keith Burbidge, D-Salem,
said the 1973 fuel shortage nearly
resulted in disaster. “We were on
the verge of being animals again,
Burbidge said, citing widespread
panic when people were unable to
tjuy enough gas to meet their
needs.
One objective of the committee
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is to determine whether increased
rail service could help avert a
transportation crisis should a fuel
shortage occur in the future.
Sen. George Wlngard,
R-Eugene, who is a committee
member, said the public tends to
view mass transit as an insurance
policy. He said many people are
reluctant to subsidize mass transit
when they are not using it, but they
want it to be there when they need
it.
Since the long-run objective of
mass transit programs is to con
serve fuel, committee members
agreed the public must be per
suaded to use this form of trans
portation by attractive rates, con
venient and frequent transit
schedules and a comfortable
means of transportation.
The committee will meet again
on Jan. 31 and Feb 14. Time and
place of the meetings can be ob
tained from the Public Transit Di
vision of the Oregon Department
of Transportation in Portland at
378-8201.
: Committee consolidates parKs
J By KEVIN HARDEN
* Of the Emerald
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Instead of receiving three small parks, Eugene
J may look toward to adding one large park to its
bevy of recreational areas and a committee look
Sf ing into the issue will have a hefty $500,000 with
5 which to plan the new addition.
J Discussion on a proposed $10 million bond
* issue has been postponed by the Eugene Joint
* Parks Committee and three planned area parks
* have been consolidated into one large park be
ll cause of the high cost of Eugene downtown land.
* The committee postponed the discussion on
* the proposed bond at their regular meeting Wed
* nesday morning and concentrated on the more
T urgent problem of how to spend $500,000 set
£ aside for three small parks planned for the central
Eugene area.
* According to Lee Coleman, a member of the
J committee, the multi-million dollar bond issue
J proposed by Ed Smith, director of Eugene’s parks
of and recreation department, won’t be discussed
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until the committee s next meeting in two
The proposed bond money would be spent to
build a new city swimming pool, four ptayfieids,
nearty 20 tennis courts and more city paries.
Three parks that were planned for the down
town area were combined into one large park to
be placed somewhere in the west Eugene area
because of the high cost of central Eugene
land.
The committee decided to use $500,000 set
aside for the construction of the small parks. That
sum is part of a $5 million, 15 year levy approved
by Eugene voters in 1976 to acquire park land in
and around the city.
Finding that one parcel of land for the proposed
small parks could cost as much as $300,000, the
committee consolidated its plans and will pur
chase land for one large park. The site for the park
has yet to be decided, but the committee has set
preference for an area west of downtown,
bounded by Washington Street and Seventh Av
enue, 13th Avenue and Washington Street and
13th Avenue and Pearl Street.
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