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County road status on Web site
Frequent updates will
keep citizens and the
media informed
By Ashley Bach
Oregon Daily Emerald
Faced with six months of
weather-related road closures and
little way to notify drivers, Lane
County officials are turning to the
newest mode of communication
— the Internet.
A Web site debuted last month
with information on road closures
on all county-maintained roads in
Lane County. Officials say the site
will quickly transmit information
to not only citizens, but also me
dia and other government agen
cies.
“We’ve never had a good way of
telling people in the community
uniformly about what's going on,”
said Doug Putschler, county road
maintenance manager. “This lets
people track the information at
any time and see if they can get
from point A to point B.”
By making the information
readily available to media outlets,
government officials and citizens,
the Web site fulfills its primary
goal: making drivers aware of
what’s on the roads, said county
spokesman Mike Moskovitz.
The site lists road names, loca
tions, types of hazards, road con
ditions and time of the update.
Roads are listed in alphabetical or
der. On Tuesday, for example, the
site showed five roads in places
such as Florence and Santa Clara
that were closed because of haz
ards such as mudslides or
downed trees.
Putschler said the site will be
updated each day as roads close or
reopen, hi extreme weather con
ditions, such as during the De
cember 1997 storm, the site will
be updated every hour, he said.
That storm, during which more
than 100 roads were closed and re
opened in four hours because of
rain and wind, is a perfect exam
ple of why the Web site is neces
sary, Putschler said.
“I must have had to answer the
phone 10,000 times,” he said.
"Now there’s a lot of efficiency in
the transmission of the informa
tion.”
The Web site will cover all
1,500 square miles of road the
county maintains. About 90 per
cent of county-mainfained roads
are rural, Putschler said.
The site, which is accessible 24
hours a day, seven days of week,
is located at http://www.co.
lane.or.us/roads. For people with
out Internet access, reports on
county road conditions will re
main available by phone at 682
6900.
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“People need to be observant of
fellow pedestrians, because usu
ally that’s a fellow student," he
said.
Cutler said he has many ideas to
curb the traffic problem on Alder
Street, including more cross
walks, speed bumps and even
closing the street entirely.
“We either need more cross
walks or at least stop signs at 14th
and 15th,” he said.
Another idea is to make certain
sections of Alder Street open only
to local access, like the campus
section of 13th Avenue. This
would allow traffic on Alder
Street only when absolutely nec
essary.
Eugene Police Sgt. Rick Gilliam
was also at the task force meeting
and said Alder Street is a problem
he has been aware of for a long time.
The two-way bike traffic often
creates a problem for drivers who
don't realize there is a bike com
ing, he said. It is not only vehicles
but also bikes that do not stop at
stop signs, he said.
"There is a lack of respect for
bikes and vehicles,” he said.
“They have to share the road, es
pecially with pedestrians on the
roads.”
Gilliam said there definitely
needs to be some intervention in
the area to deal with the traffic
problem.
“There either needs to be a
controlled intersection between
15th and 16th or some type of
change in traffic,” he said.
A controlled intersection
would involve adding a four-way
stop or stoplight at one of the in
tersections.
“Just something that causes a
driver to slow down,” he said.
The Eugene police are doing all
they can, Gilliam said, but the bot
tom line is that drivers need to
obey the law.
“We do enforcement, but you
can’t do it every day, and people
just go back to their old ways,” he
said.
Felicity Ayles covers city develop
ment and West University neigh
borhood for the Emerald. She can
be reached via e-mail at
fizzer@gladstone. uoregon.edu.
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