Phase 1A design problems
Note: In October 2005 ODOT revealed a difference mode for building the WEP - the "Couplet Alternative" (not to complete WEP as expressway east of Seneca).
SustainEugene.org: Green Eugene or Greenwash? |
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- Start
- home page
- about: .org vs. .com
- What's New
- Citizens State of the City 2009: food, transport, forests, land use, 2025
- related websites
- ForestClimate.org: Clearcutting the Climate - Forest Biofuels - Restoration
- ICCProject.info: Virtual Tour of Parks & Neighborhoods Decimated by Intercounty Connector - I-370 - Maryland 200 - Outer Beltway
- OilEmpire.US: A Political Map: Connected Dots - Limited Hang Outs - Best Evidence - Disinformation
- PeakChoice.org: Cooperation or Collapse - Earth - Energy - Money
- Road-Scholar.org: Peak Traffic: Transportation Triage at the End of the Age of Oil
- Permatopia.com: Local, Bioregional, Global Permaculture Solutions
- SustainEugene.org: Green Eugene or Greenwash? Big Steps - Sincere Sustainability
- contact SustainEugene.org
- Sustain a bull Quiz
- Greenwash Eugene
- "World's Greatest City of the Arts and Outdoors"
- We're Number One?
Eugene claims to be the greenest city in the country - Triple Bottom Line vs. Sustainability
- Carbon Credits for Highway Widening
- Hole Foods:
successfully kept out of Eugene (2006) - not so Good Company
- A Field Guide to Oregon's Environmental Groups
- West Eugene Porkway
- WETLANDS alternative & reasons WEP wasn't approved
- slideshow:
introduction, virtual tour (13 mb. PDF) - Federal Hwy Administration
- WETLANDS Alternative
- June 2001: Torrey, Pape, Green agreed to "No Build"
- Nov. 2001: City Election did not determine Federal policy
- Top Lies about WEP
- Peak Oil & WEP
- WEP Dictionary
- Cost
- West Eugene Collaborators
- West Eugene Collaborative (2007-8)
- Collaboration has two meanings - "collaboration" about WEP alternative(s)
- WEC welcomed "half WEP" proposal but didn't push it after complaints
- Osprey Group report on "collaboration" (2006)
- Osprey Group: consultant for "West Eugene Collaborators"
- Crandall Arambula - worse version of WEP (2002)
- Mary O'Brien
- Rob Zako
- Don Kahle (Comic News) wanted a WEP with Bus Rapid Transit
- WETLANDS vs. FHWA (legal)
- Federal laws: the reason the WEP was not approved
- Save Our ecoSystems vs. FHWA (1996)
- Section 4(f) prohibits paving parks
- Cooperating Agencies illegally excluded
- Endangered Species Act: WEP would need a "license to kill"
- Environmental Injustice, Whiteaker, WEP
- Federal Aid Highways are Federal decisions
- Land and Water Conservation Fund
- Purpose & Need: WEP vs. WETLANDS
- Segmentation and Logical Termini
- Western Terminus
- Eastern Terminus
- Phase "1A" - Beltline to Seneca
- "Couplet" (5th & 7th Pl.)
- traffic: would have been worse
- Ecology: parks or parkway
- West Eugene Parkway or Parklands? (2002 article, wet prairies, wetlands plan)
- Aerial Photos of West Eugene Wetlands
- Amazon Creek relocation: Beltline / WEP
- Bertelsen Nature Park
- Native Plants of the West Eugene Wetlands
- Sand and Gravel: elevated expressway through wetlands
- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglass protected a park from a parkway
- WEP Maps & History
- list of all WEP maps
- Hidden History: 1951 - 2008
- Roosevelt Freeway: 1951 - 1972
- 1978 T-2000 Plan
- WEP: 1985 - 2007
- eastern, western termini
- BLM parklands
- Crandall Arambula worse version (2002)
- WETLANDS alternative
- October 2003 update
- FHWA proposed new (really, old) route - 2006
- 2006: year to stop WEP
- MX bus
- Democracy?
- Eugene City Manager:
unelected power - A Tale of Two Mayors:
hidden history of WEP - Eugfield Springene merger
- Eugene Human Rights City:
solar powered tasers and organic pepper spray - identity politics vs. power structure
- City's website hard to use
- Devil's in the details:
DeFazio's new Wilderness and more logging for biofuels - DeFazio promoting nuclear power in Corvallis
- Sen. Ron Wyden -
war funds and Patriot Act - Gov. Kulongoski
- Gov. Kitzhaber promoting clearcuts and herbicides
- Eugene City Manager:
- Disasters
- Permaculture for Disaster Mitigation
- A Dam Big Problem: Aging Dams and the Willamette Valley tsunami
- Cascadia Subduction earthquake
- Volcanoes
- Forest Fires, Clearcuts, Mitigation
- Fireworks
- coastal tsunami dangers
- Floods
- Floodplain
- the next Missoula Flood & Hanford rad waste
- wind storms
- land use for disaster mitigation
- Eugene Climate and
Energy Action Plan CEAP - Cut Energy
50% by 2030?- CEAP and energy cuts: 50% cut in energy by 2030?
- Peaked Oil and Climate Chaos
- can't burn fuel that does not exist
- oil wells: half full, half empty
- Enviro groups seek ban on Oregon coast oil drilling (where there isn't any oil)
- Involuntary Simplicity
- Peak Money: not a recession - beyond the limits on a finite Earth
- Buildings
Energy - Food
Agriculture - Land Use
Transport- CEAP, land use, transport
- Peak Traffic
- Transportation Triage
- Peak Oil & West Eugene Porkway
- Envision & Expand Eugene
- Eugene Springfield projects
- Other Oregon Highways
- Region 2050
- Measure 37 & 49
- Public Transit After Peak Oil
- Downtown Disastrous Development: Eugene needs intelligent urban design
- RV factories: convert to bus manufacture
- Trains
- Edifice Complex
- bicycle and pedestrian safety
- saving oil in a hurry - strategies
- car sharing
- Consume
Waste - Health
Services - Natural
Resources- CEAP and natural resources
- Peak, Climate and Resources
- Clearcutting the Climate
- Peak Forests: overcutting Oregon
- Forest Biofuels: Electricity and Liquid Fuel
- Urban Ecology
- Conservation Corruption: Welfare for Wildlish
- Corporate Clearcuts and Helicopters Spraying Herbicides
- Cascadia's Original Forest
- State Forests: Oregon's Clearcuts for Kids
- National Forests
- Selective Forestry