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5"8~1 /p - )..g Administrative Order of the Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene, Oregon Establishing A Temporary Speed 30 Zone on the Ferry Street Bridge Corridor, which includes the Ferry Street Bridge Overpass and Coburg Road south of Oakway Road The Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene finds that: A. Section 5.040 of the Eugene Code provides that the City Manager or the manager's designee shall exercise specific traffic duties by administrative action, including implementing ordinances, resolutions, and motions of the Council and his or her own orders by installing traffic control devices. B. 0 RS 810 .180( 5) states that "Each roa4, authority, with respect to its own highway or streets, may designate speeds for vehicles upon any portion of the highway or street upon which temporary conditions constituting a danger to the public exist or above, below or upon which construction or maintenance work is being carried on so close to the roadway as to be a danger to passing traffic or to be endangered by passing traffic." C. Speed zone orders 870, dated October 26, 1961 and 910D, dated June 10, 1993, established Speed 40 zones on the Ferry Street Bridge Overpass and Coburg Road. D. The Ferry Street Bridge project (the Project) will involve reconstruction of roadways in the Corridor. The Project is scheduled to begin in Spring 1997 and will last approximately two years. E. With a weekday ADT of more than 60,000, the four lane Ferry Street Bridge Corridor is the busiest surface street in Eugene. F. The Corridor had 106 accidents and an accident rate of 4.84 in 1995.