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MovingAhead 2018 Outreach Summary 53 River Road. What would accurately portray the impacts is a traffic study/analysis of the current traffic flow as well as the future traffic flow and then compare those results (driving times and road capacity) to the expected traffic associated with the proposed transit center, for both AM and PM scenarios. Additional buses and a light at Green Lane in my option will have significant impact to traffic along River Road in the AM as well as the PM hours. Moving the transit center north from its current location will not increase ridership on the buses so the number of automobiles will not be reduced with the change in location. In fact, more buses north of Beltline along River Road, the additional 56 housing units, and the two commercial buildings in the complex will increase traffic along River Road. Driver times will increase due to increased congestion and River Road will likely exceed capacity for longer periods of time. In my opinion it is prudent that the traffic analysis be redone using the above recommended parameters. It is the professional responsibility of LTD and your engineers to represent to the public the realistic present and future impacts of your proposal. It is not sufficient to just state the expected difference between a commercial development and a transit center. Thank for your time and consideration. • Will Northeast Eugene Miss Out on EMX? Moving Ahead is an LTD/City project that has been looking at transit improvements along Eugene’s five major corridors. It's now evaluating different possible investment packages. The lowest cost one leaves Coburg Road and Northeast Eugene out entirely. The other four corridors get funded in all the packages (River Road, Highway 99, MLK, 30th Avenue). It doesn’t make sense. We’ve had the fastest growth in the City. Coburg has three major shopping areas. Chad Drive has become a business hub. We have a raft of medical facilities. Why are we being left behind again? The Coburg route, if it does get included, would run from downtown over the Ferry Street Bridge, head up Coburg to make a right on Crescent, make a right on Shadow View and then left on Chad, and finally go over to Gateway Mall. If you do want improved transit services here, speak up or we won’t get it. We’ll have several opportunities: o The nearest outreach event is very soon: Tuesday, June 26 in Willakenzie Park from ??? to ??? o Lots of other events all over town: listed below. o An online Open House: starts in August. Get on the mailing list for it at http://MovingAhead.org. Specifics are at http://MovingAhead.org (EMX vs “Enhanced Corridors,” five alternative investment packages, detailed maps). We want MovingAhead to hear that we need better transit out here. Don’t cut us out. • We hear that our recent suggestion (to delay any final decision on MovingAhead until Transit Tomorrow results in a preferred future transit network) is generating some internal staff discussion. Remembering the politics around EmX West, we also believe that it will take more than a few months to develop a broad community consensus around a preferred MovingAhead investment package, in particular, to get a majority of the Eugene mayor & city council to agree to the same package. We hope that a modest delay in finalizing MovingAhead will also provide time for the Eugene City Council to engage more robustly and for a broad agreement to emerge. If you have questions or concerns, please let us know and we are happy to say more in person. For now, I will share that almost since we helped gain approval for EmX West back in 2012, BEST has consistently advocated for a Jarrett Walker style "big look" at the transit network. With both MovingAhead and the Main McVay Transit Study, we have stressed the need to not make February 19, 2019, Work Session - Item 1