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<br />December 20, 2008 <br />CONTACT: <br />Eric Jones, Public Affairs Manager, 541-954-2938 <br />From Public Information Section, 682-5523 or 954-2938 <br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br />Eugene Lifts Emergency Parking Ban <br />The City of Eugene has lifted a ban on parking on emergency ice-snow routes and <br />deactivated its Public Works emergency command center, effective at 11:30 today. <br />The decision to cease emergency operations is based on a forecast by the National <br />Weather Service that temperatures will be above freezing on the valley floor through the weekend. <br />Public Works staff continues to weather conditions and will reinstate the parking ban if ice <br />or more than an inch of snow accumulates on city streets. <br />Except for a short break on Thursday, Eugene Public Works has been in round-the-clock <br />operations since early Monday morning. As of Thursday, crews had applied more than 1,000 cubic <br />yards of sand and used several thousand gallons of liquid deicer to provide traction on priority ice- <br />snow routes. Once the current series of storms is over, Maintenance crews will sweep the streets <br />to pick up leftover sand. <br />For details on where priority ice-snow routes are located and for information on drivers’ <br />responsibilities if an ice-snow emergency is declared, visit www.eugene-or.gov/pw or call Eugene <br />Public Works Maintenance at 682-4800. <br /># # # <br />Eugene Public Works www.eugene-or.gov/pw <br />858 Pearl Street, Eugene, Oregon 97501 541-682-5523 fax 541-682-6826 e-mail pwadmin@ci.eugene.or.us <br />