NEWS BRIEFS
The bike lanes from 18th to 32nd
streets on Willamette are also included as
a key project in a draft new bicycle and
pedestrian plan now under development.
Cyclists have been calling for the safety
improvement for decades and the lanes
received the most support in hundreds of
public comments on the plan. Willamette
has the third highest number of bike
accidents in Eugene, according to a recent
city study.
The city has resisted adding bike lanes
to paving projects in the past. In response
to suggestions that the city include bike
lanes with a repaving project on Hilyard
near Roosevelt Middle School, city
transportation planner David Roth told the
Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory
Committee last month, “it’s way too late.”
Roth said, “we have to be a year in
advance to even get striping changes.”
That’s a much less flexible process
than in Portland. Mia Birk, Portland’s bike
coordinator from 1993 to 1999, came to
Eugene in January and told of how she
quickly re-striped a four-lane road for
planned bike lanes with the help of the
city’s traffic engineer and a painting crew.
They did it over a weekend.
— Alan Pittman
(A version of this story first appeared at
Eugenecycles.com)
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LOSS OF OCEAN
Once thought of as a limitless source
of food, the oceans are being depleted at
an exponential rate, according to ocean
conservation advocate and activist Carl
Safi na. Safi na has been writing books
advocating against the rapid destruction of
our oceans and coastal communities and
documenting issues like non-target catch
— fi sh killed in the course of fi shing for
more profi table or consumable species —
accounting for 25 percent of the total catch,
coral reefs quickly being reduced into
seaweed gardens, and small islands being
drowned by rising water levels. Safi na’s
March 5 keynote address focused on this
ocean exploitation at the Public Interest in
Environmental Law Conference.
“It is OK to use nature,” Safi na said. “It
is not OK to use it up.”
Safi na highlighted many separate issues
facing the marine ecosystem, focusing on
a few specifi c animals and environments.
Long-line fi shing methods are a threat to
albatrosses that swoop in to catch the bait.
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