EDITORIAL
Bush is going home;
the ordeal has ended
It's over. George Rush is on a piano to Houston and
with him will go 12 years of basically bungled bureau
cracy.
Looking back, we are left wondering what happened.
The Bush administration will probably be best remem
bered for having done nothing, and even that was done
in piecemeal fashion.
There was no progress in health care, education,
deficit reduction, environmental protection or civil
rights. At best, a shaky and misguided status quo was
maintained.
Roth Rush and Ronald Reagan are responsible for the
looting of the national treasury to pay for the savings
and loan crises they presided over. Roth are responsible
for creating an environment of deregulation that has led
iq uneimcai Business
practices. including tins
loss of American jobs
to foreign competitors.
The list goes on and
on.
There have been
some positive aspects
to the Hush administra
tion. Huge reductions
in the world's nuclear
arsenals have been
achieved, Arab nations
are at least talking to
Israel and relations
The Bush
administration
will probably bo
best remembered
for having done
nothing, and even
that was done in
piecemeal
fashion.
between tho Unitoti States and Russia are improving
daily.
Perhaps Bush's greatest flaw is his loss of communi
cation with the American people. Ho has failed to come
to grips with the potpourri that is American society,
and it has cost him dearly.
Hut in the end. it should be remembered that Bush
devoted his life to the service of his country, and. for
better or worse, it's more than most of his critics will
ever be able to say.
Top 10 reasons
to miss George Bush
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1. No more impressions by Dana Carvey.
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COMMENTARY
Cartoon gives buses bad image
By Chuck Fisher
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’ell. I guess tilt1 fears
about tuition increases
making the University
an elitist institution were well
founded Clearly. Ku k Ball’s
"Off Line" cartoon in the fan 8
Emit raid is both elitist and in
extremely poor taste
I guess Ball "just didn't get
it " I have to wonder the last
time he rode the bus Bus pa
tronage t russes all et onomu
and sot nil strata I know that for
the two years I have been riding
LTD buses. I’ve experienced
nothing but courtesy from pas
sengers and drivers alike I have
had passengers make a special
effort to return something of
value I dropped or left behind
LTD bus drivers are the most
courteous of any transit system
I've ever ridden on One time a
driver, noticing I had a very
heavy load of groceries, put the
brake on and assisted me
On another m i avion, I need
ed to transfer to the bus dirts tlx
in front of us Hie driver t ailed
the station ami asked for that
bus to wait at the next stop Fi
nally, have you ever noticed
how people say "thank you" to
the drivers when getting off the
bus? You may think that hokey
but I find it refreshing
Perhaps Ball's parents bought
him that icon of Arnerit an suc
cess — an automobile — for
managing to graduate from high
school. And probably the insur
ance. gasoline, maintenance
and parking permit to go with
it 1 choose not to own a car. vet
through inv taxes I must subsi
dize his extravagance
Lane County drivers pay only
about $676 in taxes per person
per year to operate their t ars
Yet hidden costs — including
highway const met ion, mainten
ance and services; "free park
ing"; t digestion; military seen
ritv; and motor vehicle acci
dents — amount to between
$2,356 to $3.1 16 per person per
year. Lven with these subsidies,
operating an automobile costs
car owners, on average, more
than $4,100 a year Given tin*
current fis« al climate, such sub
sidies an* (mmDining increasing
ly difficult to justif \.
I'll bet if I asked Ball, he
would admit to being at least
sympathetM to environmental
< noses (this is. alter all. the l !ni
versity.) Does he realize that
driving causes more of (Iregon's
—- and the world's - pollution
than am other single activity7
For every 25 miles driven, a
pound of pollution is spewed
into the air That's twice as
nun h pollution as slash burn
ing and si\ times as much in
dustry Our dependence on di
minishing fossil fuels with 5
percent of the world's popula
tion. the I nited States uses lit
percent of the world’s oil
contributes to the need for oil
tankers to deliver their prei tous
commodity in all kinds ol
weather, as tin* recent ground
ing in the Shetland Islands
demonstrates
But most of all, it is simply
inoffident to continue using our
cars as the primary mode of
transportation, and therefore al
lows a broader spectrum of the
population modal equity
Since the 1950s. cities have
been designed and transformed
to at commodate the use of the
automobile There is a large
body of ev idem e th.it i orrelates
the loss of community with the
increased dependence on the
automobile Suourbs grew pop
ular because of the mobility af
forded by the i ar We were free'
We no longer had to communi
cate with others when perform
ing our daily chores.
In fact, today we no longer
have to go outside but merely
walk into the garage, start the
engine and drive to the garage at
work under our of fit e tower.
Cities grew, spread out and
yvere not serviceable from a
transit perspective This sprawl
also inhibits walking and hi< y •
cling.
When fewer people use the
streets, the ratio of bad people
vs. good becomes skewed,
thereby encouraging even fewer
The activity and
people using the
bus, including the
radio and bus
driver, often
make riding the
bus a much safer
choice than
returning to one’s
car in a darkened
parking lot.
people to list' thu streets The
stri'fts then truls bei onto (ian
gerous lor all concerned The
activits and people using the
bus, including the radio and Inis
driver, often make ruling the
tins a much sater i hon e than
returning to one's i ,tr in a dark
ened parking lot
Sim e the ini option of the bus
pass in the 1988-89 academic
Sear, tins ridership by students
has more than tripled More
over. the 1 1 1) bus pass affords
l nisi i*ils students mans more
choices on plai es to work and
live ss hile attending school.
In fact, the large numbers ol
i ommuting bus riders and bu s
clists saved the I'niversits from
building a parking garage near
the Si bool of Music And, as
many who regularly drive or
bit si le found out las! weekend,
the bus runs during mi lenient
weather I'he bus was pai ked
on Monday morning, with peo
ple greeting one another and
catching up on each other's
weekend.
I'm not proposing we give up
our curs, or even that we ail ride
the bus every day. However, if
we rode the bus just one day a
week, it would make a tremen
dous difference and go a long
way toward keeping Eugene
Springfield a great place to live.
Chuck Fisher is a graduate
student in urban planning