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WETLANDS alternative - WEP would not solve traffic problems - Bus Rapid Transit (EmX) WEP route
options: 1997, 2003, 2005 - photos
of 2005 map - aerial photos of WEP
area taken Summer 2002 Roosevelt Freeway: 1959
plan and 1967 plan, 1978 Whiteaker
Bypass or 6th / 7th Freeway |
Eugene's 1967 highway plan
Note the Roosevelt Freeway (original WEP idea), the Skinner Butte Freeway, the extension of I-105 to Amazon Creek, freeways through downtown Eugene, and last, but not least, the Beltline extension over Bailey Hill into the South Hills along the Ridgeline trail and past Spencer's Butte to LCC ...
A few years after this plan, Oregon enacted land use laws to establish urban growth boundaries and make the initial efforts to control sprawl overdevelopment.
Note also the new highway along Amazon Creek (south of west 11th), a new road paralleling the Willamette River north of the "number 2" (outside the Urban Growth Boundary, this project is still called for in the "TransPlan").