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The plague O f Clackam as Com m unity bond m oney approved by Clackam as
H ow ever, th is w ould m ean th a t
College’s roads have returned once again: County voters in 2014 is to expand and everywhere else,, such as the Niemeyer
potholes.
improve the college. A n example is the Center area, will not be repaved.
Across the cam pus roads, potholes Barlow parking lot, which has the worst
would appear here andthere. For a road pot holes. The bond project for the new
as old as it is, that is to be expected,but Industrial Technical Center thatw ill be
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constructed in the sum m er, includes
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^Dye to the winterw eather and age, o f the removal and repaying o f theDouglas
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the roads, thecoHege streets have taken
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a beating this past year. According to
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Bob Cochran, dean of campus services,
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freezing snow and thawing can affect
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“ M any o f the cam pus roads and ^Parking hot work,” said Cochran.
parking lots are old and fa ilin g ,” said
The college will have the Barlow ITC
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Cochran. “ The th in la y e r s o f asphalt , b
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arevery susceptibletO faiftug when the Douglas Loop road removed and repaved. * n F v i l l j -
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pavement ¿;dezfe*andthaw s?r^ * ^ ? i
The same will follow in sp rin gsd i8 for » .
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Per Cochran, cam pus services has
the Dejardin addition and the new transit
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worked with a local pavement Contractor center.
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to patch the worst areas on cam pus. ^ C o c h r a n ’ s hope <s that 'after thé J “ Those p ro jects W ill address t h e
Cochran, p o in ted o u f that these were summer construction of thelTC building,* majority of the pot holing we currently
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experience on cam pus,” said Cochran.
had to wait for a dry day, ajtid when thii Including the spring plan for the transit » While that may be the case, some voice
freezing was over, to fill or patch the center and Dejardin hall addition, the their concerns in areas that will not be
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, Dejardin parking lot will also be repaved
focused oh, like Clackamas student. Mary
The repairs were made tem porary, removing the old for the new; After these Lee, who drives and uses the shuttle. .
because m uch o f the roads w ill be two, the Douglas loop at the Dejardin and . - ‘I drive maybe two days a week and
replaced as part of the bond work. The Barlow parking structures will be repaved.
ride the shuttle the other three and
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it?s extremely jolty on the bus, ” said
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the summer
“This summer, the
pavement will he
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when it’ s not so busy to pave that and
do a better fix. Especially the entrance,
but also around the Douglas Loop, by the
YMCA and Niemeyer. ”
Regarding the big potholes, such as the
one that existed at the main entrance,
Lee spoke about how dangerous it was
by forcing drivers to go around it, into *
the opposite lane and whipping around
the corner.
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Kehau Aipolani, another student who
sometimes drivesand uses the bus, said
she occasionally has to maneuver around
the potholes.
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noticed that much as Id o n ’tgo that way
mych anymore,” said Aipolani about the
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'5 entrance. “ The big one was m y in a in
concern, because m y car’ s’ pretty ldw .-!
S o any kind of bump you can feej as’ big
as the pothole w as.”
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< Aopolani added, “ I say fill it again, but
in a more stable way that you don’t have
to keep filling it.”
With the term halfway over, it won’t be
long until the road by the Barlow building
will be fixed, but for the Douglas Loop
and parking lot by the main entrance
and Dejardin, the wait will be until next
sprang. So be sure to watch out for those
potholes as they can appear when you
least expect it.
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