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Article: Chafing over Chad Drive fix? Read on.(City/Region Columnist)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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Byline: Bob Welch The Register-Guard
Why, in a city pocked with potholes, did the city of Eugene spend nearly half a million dollars to repave seemingly smooth Chad Drive?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, said some. "We've had e-mails saying Chad was smooth, so why not fix Patterson or Harlow or Willamette?" says Eric Johnson, the city's surface operations manager.
Given that two major news organizations, The Register-Guard and KEZI-TV, reside on Chad, some wondered if it wasn't a public relations move by the city to show that it's not just sitting around on its public works posterior.
Though not buying the PR plot, I thought it an odd ...