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Education Consortium. Admission to the event is free. <br /> <br />For further information, please contact Molly Promes at 541-346-3206 (Community Planning Workshop). <br />City of Eugene Awarded Funding to Design Improvements to Two Shared-Use Paths <br />The City of Eugene has been awarded $193,600 in Oregon Department of Transportation Rapid Readiness funds to <br />design two path rehabilitation projects on the Fern Ridge and North Bank shared-use paths. The Rapid Readiness funds <br />were provided by the Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) to help local government agencies get non-highway <br />projects to “construction ready” status if new federal stimulus funds become available. The OTC is interested in assisting <br />the development of projects that have multi-modal benefits that improve system-wide access by emphasizing added <br />pedestrian/bicycle features, energy conservation, sustainability improvements, and opportunities for modal connections <br />or access improvements. These projects are an opportunity to bring substandard sections of the path system up to the <br />City standard of a 12-foot-wide, concrete-surfaced path with lighting. <br /> <br />City staff will develop a new alignment for the Fern Ridge Path from Arthur Street to Chambers Street and add new <br />components that will include a new concrete path, lighting, bike racks, trash cans and benches. The existing path is in <br />poor condition and too close to the Amazon Channel’s steep, eroding banks. The regional Metro Waterways Plan <br />recommends that this path be relocated away from the channel so the slope of the bank can be lowered to improve the <br />waterway and prevent further deterioration of the path. <br /> <br />The Willamette River North Bank path project is within Alton Baker Park from the DeFazio Bridge to the Frohnmayer <br />Bridge and may include a new concrete path where needed, lighting, widening and straightening in some areas, bike <br />parking, trash cans and benches. Part of the existing path surface is very poor and narrow in places, resulting in unsafe <br />conditions. <br /> <br />Engineering staff will involve path users, neighborhoods, bicycle and pedestrian groups, and other interest groups in <br />developing the new designs, including a portion of the North Bank path in the Whilamut Natural Area. The design grant <br />requires construction of the improvements within five years; actual construction dates have not been set at this time. For <br />more information, contact Project Manager John Bonham at 541-682-5300. <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 4 <br />May 20, 2010 <br />