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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-
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convert Frontage Roads from two to one-way.
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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
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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.
As for the campus, it will only
continue to attract more traffic -
the Bush Presidential Library is
expected to draw half a million
visitors a year.
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