SALT talks start
soon in Geneva
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WASHINGTON— The United
States and the Soviet Union will re
sume the Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks in Geneva next week, a State
Department spokesman announced
Tuesday.
“It has been agreed that Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet
Foreign Minster Andrei Gromyko
will meet in Geneva Dec. 21-22 to
continue discussions on SALT, said
spokesman Hodding Carter.
“It is felt that this meeting can be
productive, the spokesman said,
but he declined to say what the two
sides hoped to accomplish from this
meeting.
Earlier, President Carter told a
press conference, “We have made
good progress on SALT, but I can t
say that we have reached agreement.
If the Soviets are adequately forth
coming, we will have an agreement
without delay. If they are not forth
coming, then we will continue to
negotiate.
The president also confirmed that
an agreement on a SALT-II accord
will be followed by a summit meet
ing between the United States and
the Soviet Union.
“At that summit meeting we will
not only discuss concluding the
SALT agreement officially, but we
will also have a broad agenda of other
items that are of mutual interest to us
and the Soviet Union,” Carter said.
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Elevate Wellborn Road from
wisity Drive past Jersey Street,
fork toward the relocation of the
pad to an area that is beyond
Jversity property.
Ihese two proposals are stated as
|s in Texas A&M University’s
year master plan.
he University officials who serve
mbers of the Steering Com mi t-
of the Master Plan said these
is are needed to promote safety
prevent a divided campus.
he Master Plan was released in
and approved in principle by the
rdofRegents. The plan serves as
ideline for the Texas A&M Uni-
hity System’s growth over a five-
niTersif y officials said
Uborn Road presented the
pt problem by dividing the
ipus and threatening safety.
period. It provides a timetable
cost estimates for construction
renovation of facilities,
lepreface of the plan states that
Ines as a guideline and is not a
I plan.
(le teering Uommittee, '-which
chosen by President Jarvis E.
er, is made up of five University
Ms: Howard L. Vestal, vice
iident for business affairs; Dr.
rles E. McCandless, director of
lemic planning and services; Dr.
Prescott, vice president for
lemic affairs; Dr. T.R.
athouse, associate dean for ad-
istrative affairs, College of Ag-
Iture; and Heston Cherry, assis-
director, Engineering Experi-
it Station.
IcCandless said Wellborn Road
iented the biggest problem by-
ding the campus and threatening
ty. He said cars use the road con-
lously, whereas trains pass
lugh only several times daily,
art of the problem is people do
use the elevated crosswalk, he
said. Because of this, construction of
another crosswalk at Old Main Drive
would not help, he said.
Vestal said, “We want a one-
campus university. He said the
Steering Committee believed eleva
tion of the road was the best way to
accomplish this.
D.D. Williamson, district engi
neer for the Texas Highway De
partment in Bryan, has made some
preliminary drawings of an elevation
plan. The road would be built on
pedestals allowing traffic and pedest
rians to pass under it.
Williamson said projections show
Wellborn Road eventually must
handle 40,000 cars a day. He said the
highway department thinks access to
Wellborn Road at University Drive
is dangerous and needs improve
ment.
“I feel that elevation of Wellborn
Road is the best way to improve traf
fic flow,” Williamson said.
“The ideal situation would be to
have the railroad moved. That way
there would he room for a diamond
interchange at Wellborn and Uni
versity, he said.
He said if the railroad tracks were
not moved, then a partial cloverleaf
could be built at the intersection.
Williamson said there were twq
alternatives to elevating -Wellborn*
Road.
One would be to raise the road
grade enough to create an underpass
with a low clearance for pedestrians
and smaller vehicles.
He said another method would be
to lower Wellborn Road and the rail
road tracks so traffic could pass over
the road. This presented a problem
since it would cost approximately the
same as the elevation.
Williamson said if Wellborn Road
were elevated, the state would retain
an easement to the area under
Wellborn Road, but the University
would be allowed to develop it as it
wanted.
McCandless said the space could
be used for parking, landscaping or
both.
Although the cost of elevating the
road would be considerable,
Williamson declined to give any kind
of estimate on the cost, saying price
escalation made it too difficult to
guess.
McCandless said if President Mil
ler and the Board of Regents decided
to go ahead with the idea, they would
probably have to request a special
appropriation from the state legisla
ture to finance the project.
To some extent, whatever is done
with Wellborn Road is tied to the
railroad tracks.
The Metropolitan Planning Au
thority has funded a $90,000 study to
determine what could be done with
the railroad, Williamson said. The
MPA is made up of the cities of Bryan
and College Station, Brazos County
and Texas A&M University.
McCandless said any relocation of
the railroad tracks would require
state and/or federal funding.
Vestal said the least expensive re
location would cost about $10 mil
lion. This route would start just
south of College Station and run
parallel to the West Bypass (FM
2818) and back into the existing route
in Bryan.
This route would be the easiest to
carry out since the University owns
“/ feel that elevation of
Wellborn Road is the best way to
improve traffic flow,'’ said D.D.
Williamson, a state highway de
partment official.
most of the land and obtaining an
easement for the track would be no
problem, Vestal said.
He said a second alternative would
be to extend that route around
Bryan. This would cost $16-18 mil
lion, Vestal said.
Another alternative would be to
route the tracks to the west of Eas-
terwood Airport, he said.
As with Wellborn Road, the de
termining factor over what is done
will probably be financing.
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