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Congestion imminent for Bridge
■ RENOVATION: Starting
Aug. 1, the Ferry Street
Bridge will be under heavy
construction
By Eric Collins
Community Reporter
Bridge lanes will close, bike
traffic will be detoured and citi
zens will get up close and person
al with construction delays for the
next three years as the Ferry Street
Bridge Preservation and Enhance
ment Project gets underway June
16 with seismic improvements to
strengthen the bridge.
The project, which also in
cludes a bike/pedestrian suspen
sion bridge, a traffic signal at the
Coburg Road and Centennial
Boulevard intersection, and a re
structured northbound on-ramp
amongst other projects, will be de
veloped from the south to the
north end of the bridge corridor
until 1999.
With both Autzen Stadium and
student housing located on Cen
tennial Boulevard, Tom Larsen,
project manager of the enhance
ment plan, said students will see
traffic begin to become a problem
as soon as August 1, when the
northbound lane on the bridge
will be reduced to one lane.
Larsen said one-third of the
people using the bridge are turn
ing off onto Centennial Boulevard,
which is one of the reasons why
development will cater to Centen
nial traffic. The intersection sig
nal, to be installed by 1999, will al
low Centennial drivers to turn left
and head back into the city instead
of using the current Club Road
merging entry. In addition, the
bridge bike route will be expand
ed for two-way traffic on both
sides as well as rerouting the traf
fic currently coming down off the
bridge and merging into traffic.
Saturday football games at
Autzen Stadium for the next three
years will not conflict with the
project, though, Larson said, as the
Mowatt Construction Company,'
the project’s contractors, have
signed an agreement to keep all
lanes open and move all vehicles
and equipment during weekends
of home football games.
With motorists bearing the
brunt of transportation conflict,
pedestrians and bicyclists will
also be rerouted due to the build
ing of a bike/pedestrian suspen
sion bridge that will connect the
South Bank bike path with Alton
Baker Park. The path will be
closed from the Eugene Water and
Electric Board Plaza to the west
ern portion of Skinner Butte Park.
During the years of construc
tion, the Public Works Depart
ment is encouraging motorists to
use both alternative routes or LTD
buses to beat the crowded corri
dor. This includes rerouting traf
fic heading south to the Washing
ton/Jefferson Bridge in order to
make it the University.
The project, almost a decade in
the making, is receiving $23.7 mil
lion from a federal grant, $5 mil
lion from Lane County and $1 mil
lion from the city of Eugene.
Forum: Council listened to complaints
■ Continued from Page 1
forum.
“I’m the one who was seen on television being
sprayed and beaten by police officers. Up in that tree,
I was tortured. I was beaten. I was harassed. I was
criminalized. They [police officers] cut my pants all
the way up the back so they could spray pepper
spray up my anus,” said James Flynn, the last pro
tester to be pulled out of the trees Sunday morning
at the protest.
“I don’t know if you gave the order for that, but
you put my life in danger,” said Lacey Phillabaum,
directing her statement toward Police Chief Leonard
Cooke.
Community members, who were at the protest to
witness what was going on, also spoke to the city
council about their observations and concerns for the
actions of police officers.
“I was shocked by the behavior of the police,” said
Karen Stingle, a witness. “I was there for most of it,
from a few minutes after 7a.m. on. The cops had riot
gear pretty much from the get go. They [police offi
cers] sprayed people in the trees and at close range.”
At the close of the meeting, several of the city
council members addressed the concerns of the com
munity.
“I think there is some truth to the allegations, but if
you treat us like the enemy, how else do you expect
us to respond?” asked council member Tim Laue.
“This community has made a firm decision that
for as long as humanly possible, we will maintain the
urban growth boundary. In order to accomplish that
we must develop the interior of the city. This partic
ular project was discussed for approximately two
years,” Torrey said.
“We need to make sure we don’t harm these peo
ple, but we cannot allow these people to make deci
sions that are contrary to legitimately decided issues
by this council. And as a result of that I ... drove
down to the site and from approximately 6 a.m. until
MICHAEL CRISP/Emerald
James Flynn, the last protester to be pulled from the
trees at the protest, speaks to city council members
Monday night. Flynn was released from the county
jail shortly before Monday’s public forum concerning
the protest.
12:30 p.m., I viewed that situation. I did not see ac
tivities taking place that, in my opinion, justified my
interruption,” Torrey said.
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