Beltline/I-5 highway expansion plans to be discussed tuesday
Mark Robinowitz
transportation officials expect to complete seismic upgrades to Puget Sound
area roads and bridges in the next forty to fifty years, and hope that the
long-overdue Puget Sound earthquake happens after that time. Building new
and expanded roads seems to be a bigger priority than keeping the existing
system from collapsing during an earthquake, and few politicians seem to be
aware that petroleum is a finite resource.
From the Register-Guard on Monday
SPRINGFIELD - Finalist design options for a new freeway
interchange at I-5 and Belt Line Road will be available for viewing at
an open house Tuesday at the Gateway Mall.
The open house, sponsored by the Oregon Department of
Transportation, will be held between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the mall's
Community Room, adjacent to the food court.
No formal presentation is planned, but the public can review the
alternatives, talk with ODOT staff and consultants, and vote for a
preferred design alternative.
The interchange improvement is expected to cost about $50 million.
State officials want to decide on a design by the end of 2001.
Reconstruction may not take place for several more years, depending
on whether money is available.
For more information, call ODOT project manager Karl Wieseke at
744-8080.
www.homepower.com
www.jademountain.com (renewable energy supplier)
www.dieoff.org (the end of the oil age)
www.hubbertpeak.com (more on oil supplies)
www.carfree.org (the future of cities)
www.ozone.org (climate change, ozone layer depletion)
www.carbohydrateeconomy.org (biomass substitutes for petrochemicals)
www.clean-air.org (hydrogen fuel)
www.climatesolutions.org (Cascadian perspective)
www.cnie.org/nle/eng-3.html (more about the end of oil)
www.tocqueville.com/brainstorms/brainstorm0052.shtml (dryhole.com)
www.elsi.org/endofoil.htm
-- ""When the amount of net energy
available in society begins to shrink
it is harder to harness the resources necessary
to manufacture the solar panels, the wind mills,
and the other equipment needed when we begin the
inevitable task of creating a large scale
alternative infrastructure."