Hey folks! I haven’t posted in awhile, but luckily Shane has kept the site alive. I have a few weeks before grad school forces me back into hiding, so I’m going to try to cover as much as possible before then. A lot has been going on!

Firstly, remember how the Fern Ridge Bike Path is falling into the River? I first posted about it almost exactly a year ago (when I had time to run this site) with an article that explained how incredibly dangerous the area is and why City fixed only the less dangerous part of the Fern Ridge Path the following (last) summer. Eugene Transportation Planner Dave Roth said that fixing the section between Chambers and Garfield was a much more expensive project because it would require a re-routing of the path: “The path is too close to the stream, so what happens is the stream kind of erodes that side, and every year it’s sinking. That path is sinking and falling off the edge.”
The good news is that Eugene used a rapid readiness grant last year to do all the background research and planning to fix that area, so it’s now a “shovel ready” project that is just waiting for the money. This is good, since the path is now literally falling into the river, and the cracks threaten to swallow not only tires but entire joggers. But wait, there’s more!