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Article: Rapid transit plan on fast track.(Transportation)(Transportation: Workers will begin construction on the bus system this fall.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2002
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Byline: RANDI BJORNSTAD The Register-Guard
It's been a slow process crammed with designs and redesigns, dozens of open houses seeking public opinion and untold hours of deliberation by local officials. But the Lane Transit District will finally break ground this fall on the first leg of its long-awaited Bus Rapid Transit system.
Two years from now, riders should be able to whisk between LTD's downtown Eugene terminal and a new bus station on South A Street, just east of the Pioneer Parkway couplet in downtown Springfield. And they'll do it aboard sleek European-style coaches that look more like train cars than buses.
With stops to allow ...