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Skateboards and bikes can ride in any direction on the sidewalks of South Willamette Street. <br />Skateboards can ride in the bike lanes if going in the correct direction. (Downtown and other places <br />have limits, this should be looked into since it seems automobiles will be at fault in an accident, <br />there needs to be some protections from irresponsible behavior in the bike lanes or on the <br />sidewalks.) (Ex. The first week of the restriping 2 kids were racing south to north full speed, one in <br />the bike path and the other on the sidewalk.) (Ex. My daughter had a skateboarder lose control in <br />front of her, the skateboard went under her bike wheel, she flew off her bike in Amazon Park, did a <br />complete flip over the handle bars, landing on her butt, she was lucky she didn’t hit her head on the <br />cement bike path. This accident was no fault of her own, she was glad to be wearing a helmet, as <br />she always does for safety.) What if this accident had happened on South Willamette Street with <br />pedestrians, bikes and cars present, how safe would all these people be and how big would this <br />accident have become? <br />Instead of aiming to remove 50% of motor vehicles from the roads re the CRO, vehicles that meet a <br />fuel efficient standard should be rewarded through tax incentives and gas guzzlers should be <br />penalized. Motor vehicles should be tested for pollution with exhaust standards to get them fixed or <br />off the road like in other states. Maybe the Federal government, State or auto dealers with <br />hybrid/electric vehicles would give incentives to support the CRO efforts. We are so close to having <br />fully electric cars priced affordably for most people to purchase and drive, it makes no sense to <br />change the city to accommodate bicyclists as a priority. Fully electric cars are driving the streets of <br />Eugene right now. <br />The South Willamette Concept Plan originally aspired to Portland's development, and now we know <br />the mistakes that density has caused to their neighborhoods and community with over development, <br />expensive high rent development and traffic congestion in Portland. Can we learn from Portland’s <br />mistakes and not repeat their traffic/densification problems? <br />South Willamette is supposed to be a template for all of Eugene, as well as Coburg Road, River <br />Road and the other proposed special area zones, 15 in all, the people in the special area zones need <br />to understand the implications of this TSP Plan in Eugene. I see no efforts from the city to reach out <br />and truly inform the public about these changes to these neighborhoods. <br />The TSP is creating multimodal corridors so densification can be created in proposed special area <br />zones, like the South Willamette-Special Area Zone (SW-SAZ). <br />How can the TSP justify the expansion of Beltline to increase the flow of traffic while they are <br />trying to stifle all car traffic within the city. How can you make sense of those two opposing actions <br />in the context of CRO? <br />What will the TSP implementation really cost the taxpayers and the functionality of Eugene’s <br />transportation system? <br />Traffic signal system <br />The TSP will cost more than the Page 98 Estimates from 2014. “ <br />improvements. <br /> The costs are in 2014 dollars and include right-of-way, design engineering, and <br />construction costs. A summary of costs for the 20 year system is shown in Table 6.2. Capital <br />funding for transit is not included in the cost and funding analysis. Given that a community process <br />will be required to determine the types of improvements necessary to support transit in identified <br />multimodal corridors, the transit corridor capital costs were consolidated, assuming a mix of bus <br />rapid transit (EmX), enhanced corridor, and frequent bus service. Transit projects are estimated to <br />Table 6.2: 20 year system cost, <br />cost a total of $171.4 million for all corridor improvements. <br />Project category, Cost ($ 2014).Projects within 20 Years <br />: Roadway and multimodal projects <br />$150,600,000. Complete streets upgrades to existing streets $45,600,000. Rail projects $28,400,000. <br />Pedestrian and bicycle projects $72,000,000. Transit projects in multimodal corridors (multimodal <br /> <br />