Unhappy 1 Qth Avenue motorists
complain to bicycle committee
ay LORRAINE NELSON
Of the Emerakj
A new bike path on West 18th
Avenue is perhaps the “most con
troversiar action taken by the city
in a long time, according to Sgt.
Bob Laws of the Eugene Police
Department.
At a bicycle committee meeting
Tuesday morning, Laws said he
had received a number of com
plaints from motorists about the
three-week-oid path, which
stretches along 18th Avenue from
Chambers Street to Bertelsen
Street.
Motorists complain that bicy
clists should use the bike
pedestrian path located about
three blocks north of 18th, Laws
sad. The path, used exclusively
by pedestrians and bicyclists,
stretches from Jefferson Street to
a point west of the Westmoreland
student housing complex.
Additionally motorists complain
of special privileges, funded by tax
doiars, given to bicycle riders,
Laws said.
"I want you to be aware that
there may be a substantial back
lash by some people, who may
take this to the Legislature, Laws
said.
Laws added that some people
may appeal to the Legislature to
have them ‘legislate bicyclists off
the street.
Apparently the traffic lanes are
narrower in some places on 18th
Avenue than was originally in
tended. Dave Spradlin, bicycle
coordinator for the city, reported
that he measured 9-feet-wide
lanes at 18th Avenue and Pierce
Street. The lanes were supposed
to be 10-feet wide, according to
Mike Weishar, assistant traffic
engrteer for the city.
In other business. Laws said tie
Eugene pcfice are exploring the
possibility of a bicycle patrol. The
patrol would focus on the Wil
lamette River Bank bike path and
would involve placing an officer on
a bicycle to patrol tie path.
Scott Lieu alien, a city council
man and an employee of the Col
lins Cycle Shop, told the commit
tee that he and other employees
of the shop would be witting to as
sist such a patrol.
Technical improvements cotfld
be made on bicycles, Lieu alien
sad, that would enable officers to
cany aradio and other equipment.
Laws sad the largest argument
against the bicycle patrol was the
restricted mobility of an officer. He
said the department did not have
enough officers now to place a
person on the bike path. He said
that paths are very infrequently
paroled on foot now because of
the mobility problem of an officer
on foot
In other business, the bicyde
committee:
• Decided to submit information
to the Downtown Development
Board concerning downtown bike
racks. The committee will propose
possible bike racks that may be
funded by the city in conjunction
with downtown businesses.
• Accepted for review a ques
tionnaire from Regional Consul
tants Inc, which is intended to ob
tain information on what policies
the city might adopt to increase
bicycle riding.
The questionnaire is an attempt
to move toward the Bikeway Mas
ter Plan goal, which calls for 5 per
cent of the trips in Eugene to be
made via bicycle by the year 2000.
Planners OK mine district
A quiet public hearing on strip
mining fax* place in the shadow of
ejection results returns Tuesday
night in the Lane County Public
Service Budding
A combined county quarry and
mining operation zoning district
proposal was unanimously
adopted by the Lane County
Planning Commission at the meet
ing.
The district subject to approval
by the county commissioners,
would apply only to operations of
at least 10 years duration and to
those having an average annua]
production of 30,000 cubic yards
or more The operations would in
clude strip, shaft and open pit min
ing.
Local environmentalists are
opposed to the new dtetrict, say
ing provisions of the plan do not
require reclamation of mined
areas, removal of structures and
buildings or appropriate refitting.
"Why have a quarry and a mining
zone?' asked Janet Gillaspte.
former Survival Center director.
We don't need both. The plan
Evaluation forum open
i he Ad Hoc Committee on Stu
dent Evaluation of Courses will
have an open forum meeting
today at 330 in the EMU. room to
be posted Student access to
course evaluation information and
evaluation format will be the topic
of discussion
Helmut Plant. German profes
sor and ccmmrttee member, says
that he has called this special
meeting so that the committee can
gain student input on the evalua
tion controversy
The meeting is to discuss the
impfccaoons of different motions
concerning student course evalu
ations mat will be presented to the
University Assembly in De
cember," says Plant. Com
promise legislation writ be worked
out in the Senate in the last week
of November.
The Committee s recommenda
tion would allow student access to
statistical course evaluation in
formation, while other motions
would eliminate the possibility of
student access Rant says ail in
terested persons are invited to at
tend
Socialist to speak tonight
Jack Clark, national secretary
of the Democratic Socialist s Or
ganizing Committee, will be
speaking at the University tonight
at 8 in 16! EMU. H* tope wM be
“Socialism s Answer to Unem
ployment
The Democratic Socialists Or
ganizing Committee comprises
individuals active in the Democra
tic Party who are working to
change the direction of the U S
economy toward a socialist pers
pective They see the Democratic
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Party as she best available, ap
propriate vehicle for such
changes
Among its members, the com
mittee boasts feminist Qloria
Stetfiem and Georgia State Sen.
Johan Bond.
The speech, sponsored by the
EMU Cultural Forum, wifi be held
in Room 161 of the EMU begin
ning at 8 p.m.
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in the woods.
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rung commission ts not using ade
quate foresight with regard to is
sues as serious as open pit min
ing."
The adopted proposal reads.
Reclamation of land subjected to
quarry and mine extraction opera
tions is an ongoing process which
should occur as phases of the
quarry and mne extraction opera
tions are complete."
The new district. QM would be
applied to areas now classified
Exclusive Farm Use, Farm
Forestry-20, Forestry Manage
ment and General-10. if requests
for zone charges are approved
Areas within the county having
substantial mineral deposits
include Fall Creek and the
Bohemia Mountains outside Cot
tage Grove There have been
rumors concerning inquiries from
national mining interests.
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