5,1993 srsitys they aie should to find inanciai /ingthi niversi- weai! Jdents. hat cit- Lang- inistra- the stu- should snts' fi le Uni- , but no i, knew eases - et and he stu- i that,” f e have vant to on and roblem ;1 there ;al rea- itudent tration edbad rtodo ityand aluein ity for future reUni- not do hands "The is was Senate in the down ees," 1 most on an aunds man.” eased apular song drive vn. romJ litars- n and y and yuitar :rong har- ssical deart foot- i this ad." Vlay, lited juns iubts with linth tem- hord neti- ? rest make Jpto ious ear's mate, ; not ?cals ;ical- pha- usis duM into s al- reat Thursday, March 25,1993 The Battalion Russia Continued from Page 1 office released a text of his decree that omitted any reference to the "special order” of rule mentioned when he announced the decree on television. It was not clear whether Yeltsin had revised the decree to meet the court demands, or whether he had exaggerated its harshness in his TV address. Later Wednesday, Yeltsin met with Khasbulatov and Constitu tional Court chief justice Valery Zorkin. "The goal of the Supreme Sovi et and the Congress leadership is not to stabilize the situation in the country, but to use any means to remove the lawfully elected presi dent and open the way to power for the forces of revenge and total itarian restoration,” Kostikov said in a statement. Khasbulatov rushed back to the parliament building to reconvene the Supreme Soviet and finalize the Friday Congress session. He told the legislators that the meeting was useful, but that Yeltsin did not "clearly under stand the situation in the coun try.” "We want to offer the Congress some sensible alternative," Khas bulatov said. "I will make all ef forts to find a normal base before the Congress.” Khasbulatov said he presented a list of demands to Yeltsin, in cluding one for a government of national consensus and another to hold simultaneous, early presi dential and parliamentary elec tions instead of the referendium. Yeltsin has agreed to early elec- Traffic Continued from Page 1 intersections. The system controls 37 traffic lights in College Station. Hard said one measure that should reduce traffic congestion is the upcoming widening of Texas Avenue to six lanes between Uni versity Drive and Dominik Av enue. Construction bids will go out this fall for the Texas Depart ment of Transportation project, the design of which is "pretty much complete," he said. One question in that design is whether motorists will still be able to turn left from Texas Avenue onto Dominik Avenue. The city council will vote tonight on in cluding a median in the design which would prevent that turn. "The council has got a tough decision because they have got to weigh the benefits to the traveling public in terms of safety and oper ational improvements against the possible impacts to the businesses along Dominik," Hard said. That area is one of the busiest in College Station: The city esti mates 55,000 vehicles each day travel the stretch of Texas Avenue between Dominik Avenue and George Bush Drive. Other efforts by the city re garding its streets are proposals to install traffic lights on University Drive at Spring Loop and at East Tarrow, and to renovate College Main from University Drive to the city limits. An altogether different ap proach to traffic congestion, Lo max said, is what he called "de mand management." It would in clude encouraging mass transit and the use of bicycles, and changing work and school sched ules so students and staff would not all be on the road at the same time. Tom Williams, director of Park ing, Transit and Traffic Services at Texas A&M, echoed the demand management theme, saying, "We should be making it not as attrac tive to drive a vehicle to campus. If we had 50,000 parking spaces on campus, the streets surround ing campus could not handle the traffic." A&M has 23,500 parking spaces now, he said. About half of A&M's 30,000 off-campus students use the shut tle bus system to get to school in stead of driving. The shuttle bus system is oper ating near its capacity, Williams said, but PTTS would, if neces sary, expand the system to accom- Scheduled for September: Complete Southwest Parkway overpass and convert Frontage Roads from two to one-way. | II | Frontage Rood 1 1 l| 1 — — _ || l — — — 1, — — — i i Frontage Road —► 1 modate more students. "I would much rather see one more bus than 52 cars," he said. As for bicycles, a study is being done to determine the number of bicyclists and of bicycle spaces on campus. The study is intended to find out where bicyclists enter campus and where they want to park, Williams said. PTTS created bicycle lanes on university streets in 1990, but Williams said the city must help if bicycles are to become a more vi able transportation option. "Until Bryan-College Station develops an integrated bicycle plan that's consistent with Texas A&M's plan to offer bicyclists safe routes, it won't be useful," he said. Hard said College Station has started to consider bicycles in its transportation planning. He cited a bikeway ordinance passed last summer that allows the city to re quire developers to install bike paths. A bike lane was installed on Proposed: Moke E. Tarrow and Tarrow a "One-Way Pair" Install Traffic Tarrow Page 5 tions, but opposes simultaneous balloting because he wants to out last the Congress. Parliamentary elections cur rently are set for March 1995 and presidential elections for June 1996. After Khasbulatov's speech, some anti-Yeltsin legislators be gan to shout.from the floor, but were cut off and the speaker pushed through a final vote on convening the Congress and invit ing Yeltsin to appear. Many hard-liners fear the speaker would make too many concessions to Yeltsin. Holleman Drive during its reno vation. As for mass transit, the only system other than the University shuttle bus is Brazos Valley Tran sit's trolley-style buses with stops in Bryan and College Station. Though, Hard said, the buses probably do not go far in helping relieve traffic congestion. Overall, College Station's traf fic problem stems from the fact that the city has only one main north-south road in Texas Av enue, and a new traffic artery can't just be built right through existing neighborhoods or through the campus. Hard said. Tim Lomax said there is no "magic, silver bullet solution" to College Station's congestion prob lems, but if something is done the effort should be focused on the campus. 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