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i <br /> <br /> r .w <br /> Public Works <br /> City of Eugene <br /> 858 Pearl Street <br /> N E W S R E L E A S E Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br /> (503) 687-5262 <br /> I <br /> FEBRUARY l~, 1993 <br /> CONTACT: ;Jim West, Transportation Planning Engineer, 687-5218 <br /> FROM public Information Section, 687-5523 <br /> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> I <br /> TRANSPOP~TATION STRATEGIES BEING UPDATED FOR DOWNTOWN AND UNIVERSITY AREAS <br /> The pity of Eugene Public Works Department has released a draft of the <br /> Central Area Transportation Study (CATS). The transportation study takes in <br /> a 175-blo~k area bounded by 19th Avenue on the south, the Willamette River <br /> and Fourt~ Avenue on the north, Lincoln Street on the west, and Walnut Street <br /> on the exist. It encompasses the downtown, the University of Oregon, Sacred <br /> Heart General Hospital, the Riverfront Research Park, and the Fairmount (east <br /> University) neighborhood. <br /> The~CATS update will replace the original study completed in 1987. The <br /> update reflects the city's growing commitment to implement new strategies for <br /> alternathve modes of transportation, as well as address change in the <br /> transporttation system and in land use since the adoption of the original <br /> study. <br /> "T e CATS update is not intended to be 'business as usual' by focusing <br /> on impr vements which primarily serve automobiles," said Jim West, a city <br /> transpo tation planning engineer who worked with a 15-member citizen advisory <br /> committ e to revise the transportation planning document. "Its purpose is to <br /> create ~ future transportation system that equally serves the needs of <br /> I <br /> pedestrlians, cyclists, transit users, and drivers." <br /> i <br /> I <br /> <br />