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plan to the year 2000. Those conceptual goals became the assumptions e on which the staff based its transportation plan. He said the plan would address the transportation needs up to the year 2000. The urban area in its entirety, and in particular the city, has a strong com- mi tment to greatly increased alt.ernat.i\te methods of transportati on other than the automobile. The str?et~ Q:~d hi gh'filay improvements woul d be considered to prevent intolerable s;'.,'eet congestion (a goal to strive for a tolerable level of servic2~. He reviewed the four major plan ehsents. The policies plan could be the most important, as it contains a multitude of recommended actions to bring about goals the City Council has set for alter'natives and load service. He said the transit, streets; and highways elements took the major part of time, as more technical ~~IOi'~~ ami in..depth analyzation of alternatives were. requi red. The transit element studied systems ranging from ex- isting systems, such as adding more buses, to exotic techniques. The recommendation arrived at was a bus rapid transit system, and he said this would be more detailed in the document Council would receive in two weeks. The streets and highway element was directed at versus cor- ridors in the urban area where there would be serious traffic overloads. Many alternatives were studied to relieving those overloads. He sai d the year 2000 target date presented some difficulties, but the summary would list the major facilities which were felt to be needed by 2000. However, he noted between now and 1990, because of lack of funds and unknown energy supply, staff ~Jas recommendi ng tryi ng to meet the goal s by improvi ng existing systems (i.e., adding to the transit system and bus routes). In regard to the financing element, Mr. Reinhard sai(~ this was a very criti- e cal area, as all levels of government were facing some funding constraints that could make other issues academic. He felt the fin3ncing element would have to be brought in at a very early point. Other elements in the plan were pedestrians, parking, paratransit, and bicycles. He said an additional item was inter-city transit element (Willamette Valley). All policy elements are dealing with the goals of trying to improve these methods of travel. He said t.here would be some recommendations to siting of downtown terminals for inter-city transit, and strong participation of the local governments with the state in its planning would be encouraged. Mr. Obie had strong feelings regarding the summQry and wanted to know when the opportune time was to express those feelings. He did not want to wait until the process and planning had gone to such a point that such input would not be useful. Mr. Farah sai d there \'/ere two early poi nts for input: 1) the meeti ngs between No'!ember and January for di scussion and input from neighborhood groups; and, more importantly 2) the possi- bility of holding Council workshops at any time. Mr. Delay noted when reviewing the growth projections for the last five years for the 1990 Plan Update, there were two major errors: the natural growth was over-estimated, and migration under-estimated. He e 10/12/77 --5 ,11