r/Eugene • u/Low-Obligation7326 • Oct 04 '24

What amenities do you wish Eugene had? Something to do

For the sake of breaking up the monotony of this sub’s typical posts, what are some amenities you wish we had here? I don’t care if they are unrealistic for the population. I’ll go first: Top Golf and go karts. I don’t want to drive 1.5-2.5 hrs for those up in Wilsonville and Hillsboro more than once a year, and would go to both a many times a year if they were local! Do not mention Swing Suite; I won’t try it since it seems like expensive Wii golf lol!

I searched the sub for a post similar to this and didn’t find one. If there is, I didn’t want to spend more than 15 seconds scrolling for it😆

Edit: The intent of this post is FUN- unrealistic or not. I totally get the valid qualms with Eugene’s problems but that is discussed daily on this sub. I said break up the monotony. For the most part everyone has been great about this and listed some excellent ideas. Please keep this fun and positive and save your grievances for the other posts in this sub that give you this opportunity daily!

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u/hezzza Oct 04 '24 edited Oct 04 '24

More riverfront dining. A bocce ball court. A hospital with a psych unit.

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u/Bonkisqueen Oct 04 '24

We have a hospital with a psych unit though?

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u/Right-Holiday-2462 Oct 04 '24

We don’t even have a hospital.

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u/Bonkisqueen Oct 04 '24

The University District hospital’s inpatient psych unit never closed. It operates under Riverbend’s license now, but is in the same downtown location and is full of patients.

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u/Right-Holiday-2462 Oct 04 '24

Thank you I didn’t know that.

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u/Organic_JP Oct 05 '24

Been there a few times!! Lol

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u/dallywolf Oct 04 '24

If you feel that way please don't visit the one 1 minute outside of the Eugene city limits.

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u/Bonkisqueen Oct 04 '24

This. I live in deep west Eugene.. I can get to Riverbend in 12 minutes. Faster than I could ever get to University District (UD). Not to mention UD was a glorified staging area for Riverbend.. if you really had something wrong with you, you were being sent to Riverbend anyways. It’s not as dramatic of a loss as people make it out to be.

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u/Loves_tacos Oct 04 '24

This is the most frustrating thing about the "wE dOnT hAvE a HoSpItAl" argument. It's new location is better at serving of Eugene as a whole.

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u/GarmBlack Oct 04 '24

Unless there's some sort of emergency where bridges are less accessible or inaccessible... but let's just ignore the issue till we hit that point.

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u/Bonkisqueen Oct 04 '24

An earthquake big enough to take out bridges would have flattened the University District hospital. It needing major seismic updates to meet modern building codes was a big part of why they pulled the plug on it. So if the bridges go down, you wouldn’t have had a downtown hospital anyways.

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u/GarmBlack Oct 04 '24

There's more than just seismic activity that affects bridge use, especially on smaller bridges such as Ferry st.

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u/Loves_tacos Oct 04 '24

There is also more than one bridge to get there, and that same argument could be applied to a bridge in Eugene to anyone who is on the opposite side of ferry street bridge

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u/ApplesBananasRhinoc Oct 05 '24

Or if the new Chick-fil-A drive thru gets backed up.

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u/ddlb-cocksucker-ftm Oct 04 '24

It's more of a "I can make it a few blocks, but I don't trust myself on the bus with a concussion"

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u/Loves_tacos Oct 05 '24

Then get firemed and call an ambulance

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u/ddlb-cocksucker-ftm Oct 07 '24

Tbh I was a bit out of it at the time. In retrospect, I should've. But I just kept walking home instead.

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u/FloBot3000 Oct 06 '24

From South Eugene, my hospital trip has doubled.. from 10 minutes to 20. Not super happy about that.

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u/hezzza Oct 04 '24

We need another hospital with an inpatient psych unit.  There are not enough beds.

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u/kurinbo Oct 04 '24

PeaceHealth University District has a psych unit without a hospital

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u/devsibwarra2 Oct 05 '24

All the psych patients have to go through the Riverbend ED. It’s not a freestanding unit that people can check into.

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u/Unlikely-Display4918 Oct 05 '24

Well it used to only be 16 beds so I think we need about 1600 :-)

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

lalala I can't hear you lalala

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u/-PC_LoadLetter Oct 04 '24

In the same vein as bocce... A racquetball court. There are 0 public racquetball courts here.. It's literally just 3 walls, not a huge ask.

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u/ummmmyeahno Oct 05 '24

I second this. I was so bummed to find out there wasn’t a single court here. Wish the Y would’ve made room for a court or two.

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u/TelepathicTiles Oct 04 '24

Hard pass on riverfront anything! Leave the fucking river alone.

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u/hezzza Oct 05 '24

Not IN the river, but a view of the river.  Like McMenimens.

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u/TelepathicTiles Oct 05 '24

Like how many feet away from it are we talking?

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u/YetAnotherAreaPerson Oct 05 '24

At least three.

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u/TelepathicTiles Oct 05 '24

Try 300. Building close to the river causes water pollution via urban stormwater runoff, sedimentation, and toxic construction materials. It the destroys habitat of chinook salmon, endangered river turtles, etc. The light pollution can be disruptive to wildlife and fuck with their mating, migration, etc. Not to mention the building itself is at risk of flooding, and its presence actually adds to that risk by dumping excess runoff and eroding the shoreline. It basically fucks everything up except from the most anthropocentric standpoint. All so people can choke down a burger while looking at some water, which they could do anyway by just getting takeout and walking their ass down to the river. All that said, I think mcmenamins is probably a decent enough distance from the riparian zone but idk, I’m not a scientist. Some kind of non-motorized riverboat dining experience might be cool. Motors are (I think, or at least should be) banned on the Willamette because they wash out river turtle nests and are the main threat to their existence. I’m pretty sure it fucks with salmon and their eggs too.

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u/Flashy_Abies_883 Oct 05 '24

There’s people playing what looks like Bocce Ball, at University Park, in the afternoon, quite often. 24th & University, a few blocks south of campus. They’ve been doing it for a while, and they are friendly! I like to stop on the bench there and I’ve seen them many times.

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u/hezzza Oct 06 '24

Thanks, but that's petanque-- the French version.

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u/Sweet-Company7073 Oct 06 '24

I love bocce ball!

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u/hezzza Oct 06 '24

We even have balls but no court to play on 

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u/Minimum-Act6859 Oct 05 '24

Hay, Hezzza. We cannot give the mentally challenged heavy objects to throw, It is a fun game, but it has to be monitored, Like suggesting a Tomahawk Café