Council reviews bridge project plan
Marcelene Edwards
QrttQon Patty CttmnUf
Although Eugene ('iIv Count il
members were not convinced
Wednesday that a complete plan
(or the ferry St reel Bridge was in
front of them, they asked a cite
aen bridge committee to look into
the first ph iso of bridge ntprovi
merits anvwav to help prevent
the possible loss of existing fed
eral funds for the progs t
The committee that has been
working on the improvement pro
posals has until Aug. 9 to provide
for the find
phase of the project
John i.awless, hait rtian of
the Fern Street Corridor
Citizens Advisory Committee,
presented tin- fruits of a seven
mo|,t|! stu.tl of till- -l;
the bridge corridor to the i oun
i il Wednesday
Committee members recom
mended preservation and
enhancement improvements for
the bridge that would tie short
term, making immediate Use of
available federal money The
Council is facing a deadline for
the use of federal funds on the
project
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If th«* money is not allomted by
(V i 1. the i itv cannot assume it
will have any funds left, said
Councilman |im Torres. who
wont lo Washington IH , os i nt
Iv lo discuss the issue with gov
eminent officials
One long-term plan proposed
by the committee would involve
couplet lanes two separate
bridges, one for each direction -
that would <illoss two lanes for
auto traffic and one latte for mass
transit each A ns orninundation
for n multi-mortal river crossing
system, winch would ai commo
date bicycles, pedestrians. < ars
and mass transit, included a V'ai
lev River bridge and an Alton
linker Park transit bridge
Hut many council memiters
said the commtltee needed to
examine the options more thor
wughly and address some of the
problems with each, in part
lift ansi- tlie long term pian did
not have the total support of the
committee
Some i oinmittec members
wanted to keep the four auto
lanes on one bridge and have
another bridge solely (or mass
transit, rather than ,t i oupie! with
auto traffic on both tpant Thu
council wanted a plan that would
have more support from the < ont
mittw
Count 11 woman laturie Swan
fton-Grihskot said that by going
ahead without more s|*i ifl« s. the
council wm taking the i ake out
of the oven too sotin The plan for
the bridge area needed mon> tinn»
to (viki> she said
Some council members said
thev wanted to make sure all
phases of the plan would work
toy ether and tliat all of the con
struct ion completed in the first
phase would work in sulwMKjottnt
phases
\\ hen I i atged W.lth the stml ,
in December. the bridge > om
miltt*! was asked bv the t aunt il
to look .1! the design of the Ker
rv Street Bridge corridor and
review the land use in the corri
dor'* northern [Hirtion The 1 out
millet" w its als»> asked to consider
the possibilities of a trollm or
ed
improvements to the Franklin
Boo levard Interstate niter
i hange and to seek out poten
tial rev er. in- si uin i-t !u ;i.r, Ini
bridge imprnveinenls
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