The real story here begins with LTD and the Mayor of Springfield conspiring to eliminate the true stakeholders from the process of planning. They screwed the taxpayer and it should be a crime. The Main Street stakeholders advisory committee appointed by City of Springfield consisted of 17 handpicked people. One Mike Eyster was the former board president of LTD. Another Randy Hledck was the president of  Wildish Land and Development. Yes he works for the same company group that was the only bidder and awarded the 56.5 million dollar contract to build the West Eugene EmX.  There were 9 0r 10 other members of the committee  were public entity employees with no property ownership in the corridor.  This group of course advised to build EmX on Main street despite obvious conflicts of interest.  During the process LTD, City of Eugene, and Springfields city councils and Mayor were informed of the conflicts in public meetings and all chose to ignore them.  Corruption is the foundation.