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r <br /> <br /> r <br /> News Relea a City To Reconstruct 13th Avenue <br /> January 14 1987 <br /> Page 2 <br /> Accor ing to Lyle, 13th Avenue was originally built in 1912, and except <br /> for a reco struction between Kincaid and Alders Streets in 1963 and for <br /> regular m intenance, it has had no major work since it was first built. The <br /> 3 <br /> street is one of the city's busiest arterials, carrying from 8,000 to 12,000 <br /> cars a da between Willamette and Alder Streets, Lyle continued. Students, <br /> business eople, and the public use 13th to connect to the University of <br /> Oregon, S cred Heart Hospital, and downtown Eugene, and to Franklin Boulevard <br /> is i for acces to I-5 and Springfield. <br /> + <br /> The econstruction of 13th is part of the city's preservation program to <br /> extend th life of improved streets within the city limits. When an overlay <br /> or other aintenance technique will no longer preserve the facility, the city <br /> must reco struct the roadbed, Lyle said. "Thirteenth is now at a point where <br /> + reconstru tion is our only alternative." <br /> Sinc the work is part of the preservation program, there is no cost to <br /> ~ property wners. <br /> For ore information about the project, call 687-5228. <br /> i <br /> i <br /> ~I <br /> I <br /> i <br /> i <br /> ';i <br /> if <br /> <br />