Eugene velodrome?

Luciano bailey

2007-03-12

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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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


Freyensee, James P

2007-03-09

Yeah, from what I understand from all of this is that there was already
legislation in the state to build an indoor Velodrome in Southern
Oregon. I don't think this would have happened without someone in
Southern Oregon saying "hey, can we get a Velodrome?". Then the person
in Portland who was working on getting a new, indoor Velodrome found out
about this legislation and started working with the state legislature to
get funding for the Velodrome proposal here. So Eugene is not mentioned
in a site because no one in Eugene did something similar to get the
state legislature talking?

-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Erik Voldengen
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:50 AM
To: 'OBRA'
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Eugene velodrome?

Perhaps because there's nobody in Eugene championing such a project?

-Erik

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From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Turnbull
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:34 AM
To: OBRA
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Eugene velodrome?

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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gschreckchat@comcast.net

2007-03-09

Well, why haven't you?

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-------------- Original message --------------
From: Doug Turnbull

> 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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Erik Voldengen

2007-03-09

Perhaps because there's nobody in Eugene championing such a project?

-Erik

-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Turnbull
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:34 AM
To: OBRA
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Eugene velodrome?

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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Doug Turnbull

2007-03-09

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