Luciano bailey
This to me restates the memorial coliseum as an option but for now contact
your reps ASAP!
>From: john
>Reply-To: twotiretinker-obra2@yahoo.com
>To: OBRA
>Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Eugene velodrome?
>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:39:25 -0800 (PST)
>
>I think the obvious is that Portland has the cycling population to make it
>a sucess.
> When you have 10,000 plus bike trips / cycling commutters a day in the
>summer (correct me if this is wrong), then you have a huge base of fans and
>participants. Centrally located, I could envision most of these fans and
>participants riding their bicycles or using mass transit to get to the
>velodrome.
>
> I am a little leary of goverment involvement. Just another layer of
>complication and beaucracy and mess... but then again typically local
>goverment can be more efficient and effective than state or federal..
>
>
>
>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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>john m schmidt
>portland oregon
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