The pedestrian crossing and turn lanes at the Hilyard/32nd intersection are long overdue.
Regarding the complaints about increased traffic, a lot of it seems made up...drivers have been using the streets running between Hilyard and Willamette to avoid 30th for decades, which is why there are "traffic calming" devices on those streets.
The "six schools" in the area are all well away from the project location, and I see well over half the good citizens of South Eugene speeding past me as I go 20 mph in the marked school zones. This is really just NIMBY, and they're throwing anything they can think of at this project, hoping something will stick.