Kevin Van Dyke

No offense intended, but Eugene is not the second largest city, Salem is. Eugene is the third largest in Oregon. Saying Eugene-Springfield is almost as irritating as saying Seattle-Tacoma. You might as well say Portland-Salem. Sorry, I digress.

Eugene is centrally located? Tell that to Bend (or Prineville!) If by centrally located you mean the center of population, it's not that either. There is a comparitively large population in the Portland metro area that skews your claim.

Regardless of size of a city, or geographic location, it boils down to dollars and cents. There must be a large enough population close enough to your proposed venue that are willing to foot the bill, either through tax support, or admissions and sponsorships, or combination of all three.

Has anyone ever talked about building a velodrome in Eugene? Probably.
Talk however is cheap........... facilities are built with dollars.

Like I said, no offense intended whatsoever. I just want to help clarify some reasons why it hasn't happened.

Kevin

>
>Doug Turnbull
wrote:
> After reading all these excited emails about building two new
>velodromes in Portland and southern Oregon, I am curious as to why
>Eugene is not one of the proposed sites. Eugene/Springfield is the
>second largest city in the state, we have a large cycling community,
>and we are centrally located geographically. I certainly think the
>proposal to build more velodromes is fantastic, but I am just
>wondering (with a bit of jealousy) why Portland and southern Oregon
>were picked instead of my town. Has there ever been talk of building
>one here?
>
>-Doug
>

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