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LOTRAK
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below ground level through campus,
while existing streets, like University
Drive, Joe Routt Boulevard and
George Bush Drive, would stay at
ground level.
Northbound Wellborn traffic
would stay on the present Wellborn
Road, while southbound traffic
would travel on what is now Fin-
feather Road.
The depression of Wellborn and
the railroad tracks would eliminate
traffic stoppages because of trains
and eliminate braking and turning
by cars caused by Wellborn intersect
ing other major streets.
Ziegler said the LOTRAK project
was undertaken because of concerns
by the state, A&M and the cities of
Bryan and College Station about
safety hazards on Wellborn Road,
which handles 50,000 cars daily.
Pedestrians crossing Wellborn, in
creased vehicular traffic, hazardous
train cargo and emergency person
nel being stopped by trains were
among concerns, Ziegler said.
In order to handle pedestrian tra
ffic more effectively, a pedestrian
mall as large as 200 feet wide would
be built at Main Drive in front of the
Albritton Bell Tower and a smaller
crossing near the tennis complex.
Both crossings would connect east
and west campus without coming
into contact with a street or the rail
road tracks.
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the scene of tf
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fence surround
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James Bond, deputy chancellor
for external affairs at A&M, said the
University supports the LOTRAK
project because it is “indispensable”
to A&M to connect the whole cam
pus because of the west campus’
growing role.
College Station Mayor Larry
Ringer, Bryan City Manager Ernie
Clark and the cities’ Chamber of
Commerce all echoed support for
the project.
Not everyone, however, spoke
kind words about the LOTRAK pro-
ject.
One woman in the audience asked
why the entire four-mile section of
Wellborn had to be reconstructed to
become a divided, one-way freeway
since it would hurt many small busi
nesses along Wellborn.
“The traffic by my business will be
cut in half,” she said.
Ziegler said businesses probably
will lose some customers, but that
the present plan was the best alter
native.
A Bryan man in the audience
asked if bicycle traffic had been
taken into account when the plans
were drawn, but Ziegler said it
would be up to the cities and A&M
to make bike paths available in the
area.
The lion’s share of the $39.7 mil
lion project — $25.7 million — will
be paid for by the state. A&M will
contribute $6.6 million, College Sta
tion will add $4.5 million and Bryan
will add $2.9 million.
Study: Speeders havt
lower accident rates
Two Texas
dents were tre;
juries followir
night car accidi
don of South C'
sity Drive.
A&M studei
aid, 22, and ;
identified fema
taken to Hum:
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driving struck c
on University D
The student'
released early
ing.
Bob Wiatt,
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Lead-
foots probably will be happy to hear
about a new study, partially per
formed in San Antonio, that says
speeders may actually be safer than
folks who follow the posted limits.
“They’re not all fools,” said Sam
uel Tignor, the Federal Highway
Administration’s chief of traffic
safety research. “Some of them
know what they are doing. They are
driving at what they think is a rea
sonable and appropriate speed.”
According to Tignor, studies con
ducted along 52 highways with
speed limits of 50 mph or less and
other research indicate that:
• Seven out of 10 drivers exceed
speed limits.
• Drivers maintain the same
speeds even when the posted limits
are lowered or raised.
• On roads with a speed limit of
50 mph, the lowest rate of accidents
and deaths occur among drivers
whose average speed is between the
legal maximum and 80 mph.
What that means, Tignor said
Monday, is that most drivers gauge
their speed based on traffic and road
rather than the posts
conditions
limits.
It also means that the postd
speed limits do not necessarily it
fleet the safest speed, and trafficei
gineers need to do something tom
rect that problem.
Two things that do not effective!
slow traffic are white lines alongE
edge of a road and stop signs, sail
Andrew Ballard, citing his ownrt
search as a traffic design engineerit
San Antonio.
Ballard said the “edge lines’dii
nothing to slow traffic along iw
streets leading to residential areasii
San Antonio.
He also said cars slowed when ay
preaching stop signs, but no:
enough to warrant using the signslt
reduce speed.
The only sure-fire deterrents:
speeders, he said, are the present!
of police cars or potholes.
“Most of the people drivinghigt
ways aren’t having accidents,” Tig
nor said. “So they must be doing
something right. On the other hand
that is not to say we don’t have po
tential for improvement.”
Fres
Illinois’ lawmakers repeal
grandparents’ visitation law
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Five days after the Gen
eral Assembly passed a law strengthening the rights of
grandparents to visit their grandchildren, Joni and Da
vid Gammie and their three children left the state.
The couple put their brick home in the Chicago sub
urb of La Grange on the market, left their jobs and
didn’t tell their families where they were going. They
wanted to keep Joni’s mother from ever seeing the chil
dren again.
That was in 1989, and this year lawmakers decided
state law went too far. Last month, they passed a law
that repealed what they’d done the year before. Gov.
James R. Thompson hasn’t decided whether to sign it.
He has until late September.
All states have laws allowing grandparents to ask the
courts for rights to visit grandchildren if a parent is di
vorced or dead. But additions to the “grandparents’
rights” law enacted last year in Illinois allowed grandpa
rents to sue for visitation rights even if the parents of
the children are married or living together.
Lawyers said they know of only a few lawsuits filed
under the 1989 law, but they have been hitter.
On one side, grandparents argue that family rife
shouldn’t keep them from their grandchildren. Ontk
other side are parents who disapprove of how their pat
ents treat the grandchildren, and lawyers who argu*
the law is an unconstitutional interference with parent
rights to raise their children as they see fit.
“The law doesn’t give rights to the grandparents
said Mrs. Gammie, who now lives in Mesa, Ariz. “1’ |
takes away rights from the parents.”
The law was passed after three years of attempts!)'
Rep. James Stange, who decided to sponsor legisladof
after hearing stories such as that of Mrs. Gammie'
mother, Ruth Etheridge.
Etheridge and her daughter have accused eacholhet
of abusing the grandchildren. Each side says there’sn«
evidence for the other’s allegations.
By JEFFREY A.,
Special to The Ba
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more in fees this f;
maintaining each
tion card.
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Ritchey said the s
nance fee was imj
suit of the Texas
System Board of
last year to use pe
every year instead
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getting into and c
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work this fall, we
you’ve paid your
files to see if you
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the magnetic strip
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brary books.”
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for the verificatior
IDs is expensive.
Magazine ‘scentstrips’ raise stinl
NEW YORK (AP) — Some mag
azine readers are thumbing their
noses at “scent strips,” the fragrance
advertising inserts that can make ev
erything in the mailbox smell like a
perfume store.
These people want scent strips
sealed in odor-proof wrappers to
protect the health of the allergic,
asthmatic and hypersensitive, as well
as the olfactory sensibilities of every
one else.
Legislation to regulate the use of
the strips is even being considered in
some states.
Manufacturers and publishers de
fend the strips as an inexpensive, ef
fective way to bring fragrances from
the perfume counter to the kitchen
counter. But some have agreed to
stop using one form of the strips.
The scent strip was first used
widely in the early 1980s to intro
duce a perfume called Giorgio,
whose manufacturers could not af
ford the usual television advertising
and promotional giveaways.
Women were able to sample the
powerful perfume at their leisure,
and anyone else not directly upwind
also got a blast. Giorgio became
America’s best selling fragrance.
Billions of fragrance inserts have
been distributed over the past de
cade, and about 30 major magazines
regularly carry them. The mag
azines love the ad revenue — F
million last year — but some reader
don’t like the scents.
One is Amy Solomon, 38, wl*
opened a fashion magazine
spring on a train ride from Manta
tan to Albany.
By Beacon, she had a headadi'
By Poughkeepsie, she could
open her eyes. By Hudson, stillin'
ther northward, she felt sicktohf
stomach.
“There ought to be a law,"
told herself. As director of com®
nications for New York state Sf)
Martin Connor, she was in a posiw'
to help pass one.
“This is a bypr
one-time card ins
each semester,” Ri
Students previc
year for a new cat
matically update
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a one-time $5 fee
and $4 every yea
puter update inf
card.
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over what they
spending on nev
said. “Once you g
to it.”
Ty Clevenger, S
ident and senior g
he does not have :
new $4 fee as long
date information c
Clevenger said
committee to loo
ment in the fall.