Article: LTD back in driver's seat after shuttle shift.(Government Local)(The agency gets the OK for Trials rides, and a competitor pulls out of Sunday's marathon)

Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard

Lane Transit District is back in the shuttle service business - the sole provider for both the Eugene Marathon on Sunday and the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials this summer.

As expected, the Federal Transit Administration on Wednesday granted a waiver allowing LTD to provide shuttle service to the 10-day Trials that begin June 27 at Hayward Field. Trials officials and others had predicted a logistical nightmare if LTD were denied the job it had been planning to do for more than two years.

In a greater surprise, LTD officials learned this week they will be the sole shuttle provider at Sunday's Eugene Marathon after a private ...

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