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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 25, 1995
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Turned upside down
Lisa Perry / KANSAN
Wilma Bowline, a speech pathologist in the department of speech, language and hearing, flipped her Honda CRX yesterday morning after she crashed into a sign near the intersection of Naismith Drive and Sunnyside Avenue. She was not seriously injured. Craig Kenkle, Buck Grove, Iowa, junior, was walking out of the parking garage next to Allen Field House
when he heard the crunch of the car's roof. Kenkle ran to the car, opened the door and asked Bowline if she was all right. Kenkle helped Bowline out of the car. Bowline then sat on the curb until Douglas County Ambulance Services arrived. She was treated and released.
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with it and studying their reactions.
"I'm going to Utah next week," Blumstein said. "I'm also going to try to work with some groundhogs here."
Swearingen said that robotbadger would allow Blumstein to study marmots without having to wait around for a live, wild badger to show up.
"It's a way of being able to control your research and observe in your time, instead of waiting for it to happen," he said. "It speeds up your research."
Robo-badger was built for durability, and it can withstand bugs and the outdoors, but it is not rainproof. And though his wheels can move pretty fast, Blumstein won't be opening up the throttle while researching
u're throttle white research.
"I'm not going to run it fast," he said. "Badgers don't go very fast."
Trafficway avoids gridlock, for now
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
Despite route changes, budget problems and local protests, the South Lawrence Trafficway is rolling right along, said county officials in charge of the construction and financing of the road.
On Saturday, a group of organizations opposed to the trafficway and the Coalition to Preserve the Wetlands, another group opposed to the trafficway, said the trafficway had become a tax burden that the people in Douglas County had never expected.
The group said the trafficway could cost about $40 million more than the $59.3 million allotted for it, and the county's construction permits from the Kansas Department of Transportation say the county must foot the bill for any extra costs.
But Mark Buhl, Douglas County commissioner, disputes that.
He said the county only had to pay for 11.3 percent of the project's cost and had already paid most of that with local money and federal grants. The county may have to come up with more money from the state and federal government, he said, but the money would not come directly from the county.
The implication is that all costs over the estimate have to be paid by us, but I don't think that is the way it will be," Buhler said. "We're not going to have to spend another $30 million to get the project done."
"The protest had taken up a lot of my time...but it hasn't held the contractors up."
JohnPasley trafficway project coordinator
In a letter to the county, Michael Rees, chief counsel for the Department of Transportation, said there was disagreement about who should pay for the over-budget costs. The county said it should have to pay 11.3 percent of the cost of the project, which now comes to $6.7 million, and no more.
But, Rees said, the county would have to pay $4.7 million initially and then all of the costs above the budget.
"I don't necessarily agree with the way Mike Rees negotiated that contract," Buhler said. "We never did feel we were on the hook for anything over the budget."
But county officials said no one could decide who needs to pay until the total cost of the trafficway is determined.
"We're not going to worry about it until we get that resolved," said John Pasley, trafficway project coordinator for the county.
Pasley said the route for the eastern portion of the road had not been decided yet, so they did not know how much it would cost.
At Saturday's press conference, the Coalition to Preserve the Wetlands also talked about a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Department of Agriculture. The letter said the EPA was concerned that the trafficway would cause increased flooding in the Wakarusa River floodplain.
But, Pasley said, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had already determined the flood danger to be minimal because water levels would rise only about six inches in a flood.
"FEMA wasn't concerned about it," he said. "It causes a slight increase but only in the creek channel."
Pasley said the project was going smoothly despite the budget questions and protest from local citizens.
"We really haven't been held up," he said. "The protest had taken up a lot of my time and government time but hasn't held the contractors up."
Buhler said the there had been protest to the trafficway since the project was started.
"There's a new group of people every year that thinks it's a bad idea," he said. "They are interested in painting a conspiracy and delaying the project."
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