Wednesday, September 3, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 13
Northeast Radial status unsure
By John Hopgood
Question: What is the status of Lincoln's controversial
Northeast Radial?
Answer: The same as it was two generations ago-up
in the air.
The Northeast Radial, a proposed four-lane diagonal
road designed to run from the downtown business district
to 27th street, has been a topic of heated debate since the
1940s. The Lincoln City Council is still debating whether
to build the road and their delay is affecting the growth
plans of the UNL and the nearby Malone and Clinton
neighborhoods.
If the proposal to build the radial passes, the road will
cut through property owned by the university and may
limit growth to the east.
One way the radial would benefit the university is
that it would take commuter traffic off of 16th and 17th
streets, which run through the downtown campus. Such a
plan is in keeping with the university's projected goal of
establishing a "walking campus" with parking on the
perimeters.
UNL officials will not publicly come out supporting or
opposing the radial. However, Ron Wright, vice chancellor
for business and finance, said the university has "served
notice" to the city that if the road is to be built "it (the
university) would prefer that it be built east of 21st
Street." The university's long-range master plan calls for
growth east to 21st Street. Wright's suggestion for con
structing this radial would be in keeping with the plan.
The UNL master plan, developed in 1967 by a Texas
planning firm, was designed to accommodate a student
population level of 25,000 and sets no timetable for
completion. . At present about 23,000 students attend
UNL.
Although the plan does not specify exact locations,
it calls for the construction of two more residential
halls and a new student center.
Full approval deadlocked
Wright pointed out that the university "is hemmed
in on th ee sides" by railroad tracks bordering the campus
on the north, Interstate 80 on the west and downtown
Lincoln on the south.
Even though slower growth is projected for the 1980s,
UNL officials hope to keep the option of eastward
expansion open. The construction of the radial "would in
fact be the fourth boundary," Wright said.
The radial first was proposed in the late 1940s as "the
diagnonal." As the city grew during a growth boom in the
1950s and early 1960s, so did the design plan for what
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then came to be known as the "Northeast Highway.'' The
"Northeast Highway" became the "Northeast Radial"
when support for the plan dwindled during the recession
of the early 1970s.
In 1977, the city council scrapped the portion of the
radial east of North 27th Street.
This year, the city council was deadlocked, voting
3-3 twice on a motion to kill the plan.
The Radial Reuse Task Force recently has completed
a draft report which encourages "a serious re-examination"
of plans to build the radial.
19th street corridor
The City-County Planning Commission suggests using
the 19th Street corridor instead of 22nd street because of
possible hazards to pedestrians trying to cross the radial
to get to the new Malone Center, which will be built at
20th and U streets.
At present, the city council is awaiting the report of a
task force evaluating the environmental impact of the
radial west of 27th Street, and then will have a public
hearing on the issue.
Whether the city council will make a final decision on
the roadway this year is uncertain. However, many believe
the city will vote down the proposal within a year. Among
those is City Council Chairman John Robinson.
"There is not a lot of support for the radial and there is
a slim possibility that it could be scrapped," he said.
Council member Eric Youngberg is against the road
way. But he favors the 19th Street route in favor of the
22nd Street plan if the radial is built because "it would
take fewer homes and businesses."
Joe Hampton, another council member, said that a
basic reason for the plan is to provide a link between the
city and UNL's east campus. He suggests that the univer
sity is being ignored by the council and puts part of the
blame on the university itself.
"I think the university could have been more forceful
itself," Hampton said. I think there's been a woeful lack
of dialogue between the two entities (Lincoln and the
university). For instance, the city council and the NU
Board of Regents have never sat down and had a meet
ing," Hampton said, adding that he didn't think the radial
would be destructive.
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