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Mr. McKinley said a letter was received from Jim Spicer, co-chair of the Glenwood Planning Team, after the Planning Commission reviewed the TransPlan. In the letter Mr. Spicer requested a change in the timing of the McVay Highway ,_ project. Mr. McKinley said the request can be considered next year during the annual review of TransPlan. Mr. McKinley said the annual review recommends initiation of a work program for an Alternative Mode Study to analyze the transit goal and the alternative modes goal for the next update of TransPlan. He said a data collection system is needed to monitor the use of alternative modes of travel in the community. Mr. Holmer said the staff promised last year that a report on alternative modes of travel would be available this year. Mr. McKinley responded that the TransPlan annual review contains data indicating Lane Transit District (LTD) ridership increased 4.5 percent. He said additional data will be expensive. Ms. Bascom said she has many questions about trips between 6th and 7th avenues and 18th Avenue because people say they cannot get from the west side of the downtown mall to 18th Street. She suggested the issue and proposed solutions be included in the TransPlan Annual Review next year. Res. No. 4049--A resolution endorsing the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area Transportation Plan (TransPlan) as of July 27,1987. Mr. Holmer moved, seconded by Ms. Schue, to adopt the resolution. e Mr. Miller said he is very concerned about LTD's use of part-time drivers because they are not provided benefits such as health insurance. He suggested LTD review its policies. Mr. Bennett said everyone seems to agree that the mod a 1 split used in TransPlan is unrealistic. Consequently, the goals in TransPlan are unrealistic. He said the modal split in TransPlan was not used in the CATS. A "worse case scenario" which probably was more realistic was used in CATS. Referri ng to El ement 2: Plan Assumptions on page 3 of the TransPlan Annual Review, he wondered what support for the annual review can be based on when it contains a modal split that no one will defend. Mr. Holmer said the council requested data about achieving the modal split goal last year. The data has not been presented. Therefore, he wi 11 vote against the motion because passage of it would endorse a plan that is not being carried out. Ms. Bascom said data is being gathered. Mr. Gleason discussed the collection of empirical data. He said more sophistical data about the modal split is needed and the staff is perfecting it. Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County must agree on the data. He recommended the council adopt the TransPlan Annual Review. He said there proably will be better data and agreement among the three jurisdictions and LTD about an appropriate modal split next year. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 27) 1987 Page 9