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'i <br /> i, Administrative Order <br /> of the <br /> Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene, Oregon <br /> Establishing A Temporary Speed 30 Zone on <br /> C <br /> the Ferry Street Bridge Corridor, which includes <br /> the Ferry Street Bridge Overpass and Coburg Road south of Oakway Road <br /> i <br /> <br /> • <br /> i <br /> The Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene finds that: <br /> 1 <br /> A. Section 5.040 of the Eugene Code provides that the City Manager or the <br /> manager's designee shall exercise specific traffic duties by administrative action, <br /> including implementing ordinances, resolutions, and motions of the Council and <br /> his or her own orders by installing traffic control devices. <br /> B. ORS 810.180(5) states that "Each road authority, with respect to its own highway <br /> or streets, may designate speeds for vehicles upon any portion of the highway or <br /> street upon which temporary conditions constituting a danger to the public exist or <br /> above, below or upon which construction or maintenance work is being carried on <br /> ~ so close to the roadway as to be a danger to passing traffic or to be endangered by <br /> passing traffic." <br /> i <br /> ~ C. Speed zone orders 870, dated October 26, 1961 and 910D, dated June 10, 1993, <br /> established Speed 40 zones on the Ferry Street Bridge Overpass and Coburg <br /> Road. <br /> i <br /> j D. The Ferry Street Bridge project (the Project) will involve reconstruction of <br /> roadways in the Corridor. The Project is scheduled to begin in Spring 1997 and <br /> • ~ will last approximately two years. <br /> E. With a weekday AD~T of more than 60,000, the four lane Ferry Street Bridge <br /> Corridor is the busiest surface street in Eugene. <br /> i <br /> i <br /> ~ F. The Corridor had 106 accidents and an accident rate of 4.84 in 1995. <br /> <br />