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to achieve the goals, it would be worthwhile to assess the affects of lower e percentages on community streets and parking facilities. He said if the goals were not achievable, sufficient capacity was required of proposed improvements to accommodate the extra traffic flow. Mr. Briggs said the chamber suggested changes in proposed policies to keep through traffic out of industrial areas as well as residential areas, to delete II premature II extensions of bike paths beyond the urban service boundary, and to delete "unnecessarily restrictive" prohibitions against on-street parking and limiting of off-street parking. He asked that the reasons for the changes be judged against the response by the Technical Advisory Subcom- mittee's memo of November 12. Mr. Briggs also submitted written testimony. Micheal Gannon, address unavailable, spoke concerning long-term transportation at the south end of the Willamette Valley. He said the Springfield-Coburg railroad line had been closed, and allowing it to remain closed would represent a long-term loss into the 21st century for high-speed rail transit. He said a number of proposals existed in Congress to allow for land banking of current railroad lines, and future plans such as TransPlan should work to develop participation in the responsibility to designate traffic serving a number of communities on the Wi1lamette corridor. He suggested leasing routes and said he expected the light rail system in Portland to reveal economic development opportunities that have been ignored in transportation planning for the Eugene area. Mr. Gannon also said he thought the community needed to focus on data e terminals as a method of reducing trips. He suggested linking data terminals with computer networking within the community to transportation units such as LTD transit stations, in order to build a more sophisticated knowledge base. Mayor Obie thanked the speakers and closed the public hearing. D. Questions of Staff Eugene Public Works Director Christine Andersen said staff felt the transit - goal was a significant movement toward agreement on a realistic goal that was ambitious, but also attainable. She said some conflict had existed in the T-2000 Plan about the transit goal. She said specific project identification during the first five years of the plan would not be substantially altered if the transit goal were re-evaluated and lowered. She also said the staging proposal would allow progress toward the transit goal to be evaluated as part of TransPlan's annual review process. By the time of the next update in five years, that information would be available, along with data from the transit and alternative mode study proposed in the appendix, and a future target could then be set. She also said current figures indicated four to five percent of work trips are made by transit, with about eight percent by bicycle in Eugene, and five percent in the metro area. She said the goal was ambitious, but staff felt the opportunity existed to monitor progress toward the goals and to adjust accordingly. e MINUTES--Joint Elected Officials Hearing--TransPlan December 4, 1985 Page 11 "