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<br /> He stated their feeling too was that the planning process must not be <br /> bound by federal deadlines if more time is needed. He referred also to <br /> some incorrect assumptions in the alternatives document as noted by . <br /> his group. First, there is too heavy reliance on the assumption that <br /> people will not decrease their use of the auto. There seems to be interest <br /> in decreasing that usage, plus gasoline could be gone in about 30 years. <br /> Secondly, the document assumes a marked increase in population and employment <br /> levels and that raises the question as to whether Eugene will attempt to <br /> control the rate of growth. Thirdly, noise and air pollution in Eugene <br /> are not treated seriously enough. Fourth, the external-internal, <br /> external-external, and internal-external trips were not included in the <br /> study. Lastly, Land Use alternatives must be treated more seriously, <br /> plans that will facilitate use of alternative modes and decrease the use <br /> of the automobile. <br /> (I - B- 3) Dennis Cuddeback, 4125 Highway 99S, wondered if other alternatives than <br /> buses have really been considered. He has not noticed much change in <br /> mechanical transportation though in other fields there have been fantastic <br /> changes. He would favor alternative O. He feels other alternatives are <br /> needed to the smoky bus. The idea of limiting road construction seems <br /> irresponsible, he concluded. <br /> Dean Kennedy, a former resident of Seattle, mentioned that that city had <br /> many buses and good ridership. People fought plans to build more roads. <br /> Here in Eugene, he said, there are not as many buses and people do not <br /> want more roads, they want more buses. "Will we end up like Seattle", <br /> he wondered. He felt Mr. Culp's conunents were very appropriate. "We <br /> could spend ourselves into a depression", he said. He suggested the <br /> possibility of "throwing the whole thing" open to free, private e <br /> enterprise "that is not plucking the pockets of the businessman". Let <br /> people make a profit from it was his thought; if they can't they should <br /> fold up. He added that those businesses subsidized by the government <br /> probably should not be operating at all. <br /> He suggested Council members and Planning Conunission members read "Planning <br /> for Freedom - the Road to Serfdom", by Nobel prize winner Frederick Hydeck. <br /> He concluded it is inunoral and illegal to pluck the pockets of the citizens <br /> and that, if there are not enough people to warrant a business, it should <br /> not exist. <br /> Bruce H. Anderson, Chairman of the Metro Area Transportation Study Group <br /> on transportation alternatives, presented an addendum to that conunittee's <br /> report and sununarized that, to devise an efficient syst~m for the future, <br /> it is necessary to revise concerns as to how to support that system. The <br /> concerns have to be broad based, having those persons using the system pay <br /> for it and exploring all means of making that occur. The transportation <br /> study group supports that concept. It is necessary, too, to plan for the <br /> future, looking at reasonable possibilities of the direction that is being <br /> taken resource-wise. Decisions should be re-examined periodically. A <br /> plan should be adopted that will match the 1990 plan. Additionally, if <br /> alternative means of fuel are found, those should be plugged back into <br /> the system. The Transportation Study group supports No. 3 and parts of No. <br /> 5, said Mr. Anderson. They ask for the implementation of the 1990 Plan. <br /> "If you make it easy for people to flee the urban area, you will not be e <br /> implementing the 1990 Plan through transportation planning," he concluded. <br /> . <br /> Scott Lieuallen, 952 W. Broadway, Eugene, referred to four elements <br /> stressed in the 1990 Plan: Clean environment, intact residential <br /> fe,/7 11/24/75 - 6 <br />
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