Notice Portland considers building a subway for downtown

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SlyPokerDog said:
Portland has one plan and one plan only, and I'm being 100% serious, make everyone ride bicycles. Cars are evil.
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I do ride my bike a lot. However, during those shitty months? No thanks.

Honestly, I have relied on the public transit system for many years to get to work and never saw this supposed savagery that's apparently "everywhere". There were some weirdos, sure, but nothing that would ever ever make me move to Gresham or Vancouver.
 
theprunetang said:
I do ride my bike a lot. However, during those shitty months? No thanks.

Honestly, I have relied on the public transit system for many years to get to work and never saw this supposed savagery that's apparently "everywhere". There were some weirdos, sure, but nothing that would ever ever make me move to Gresham or Vancouver.
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I lived in West Linn for most of the 15 years I worked in Portland. I could not do my job without the auto, but today, I don't think I could stand the commute every day.
 
MarAzul said:
I lived in West Linn for most of the 15 years I worked in Portland. I could not do my job without the auto, but today, I don't think I could stand the commute every day.
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Waze. Greatest app ever.
 
MarAzul said:
I lived in West Linn for most of the 15 years I worked in Portland. I could not do my job without the auto, but today, I don't think I could stand the commute every day.
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I agree. That drive would be too much for me. The trick to living in Portland to me is finding a place with nice relaxed streets that are close to the craziness that you want to head out to. My last places were in Ladds Addition, SE 26th and Taylor, Another was a street away from Peacock lane. All super quiet and relaxed but merely blocks from awesomeness and with a 15 minute commute to work. I had no problem.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
We need to get north south traffic out of the Portland downtown core. We need a 3rd Columbia bridge but the one proposal I saw was to put one in between the existing I-5 and 205 bridges. What the fuck would that do for the area traffic?
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No, we need to get rid of the two Columbia bridges we have. That will solve the traffic problem much better than an additional bridge, and cheaper, too.

barfo
 
theprunetang said:
I agree. That drive would be too much for me. The trick to living in Portland to me is finding a place with nice relaxed streets that are close to the craziness that you want to head out to. My last places were in Ladds Addition, SE 26th and Taylor, Another was a street away from Peacock lane. All super quiet and relaxed but merely blocks from awesomeness and with a 15 minute commute to work. I had no problem.
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The commute from West Linn to downtown is 16-20 minutes, given the day. Or should I say,"was". Now that traffic sucks at any given time in Portland, the commutes from the burbs are getting worse. But if you live in the city and work in the city.... Public transit is the only way to go (unless you magically have access to bigger thoroughfares and highways). Or you find yourself sitting in traffic and congestion, paying for gas and wear and tear on your car and then for parking.
 
MarAzul said:
After you get this done, then you can rip out all that damn freeway built along the river. Recover that prime property for some useful purpose. It never should have been given to friggin freeways.
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Ha, something we actually agree on.

barfo
 
MARIS61 said:
Max will be bankrupt and gone 20 years before completion of proposed subway which would be flooded every 7-8 years and require several additional transfers while bringing no legitimate benefits to taxpayers. PDX is in the grasp of seriously dangerous MORONS. Drain the swamp.
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Yes, subways are technically impossible and have no benefits. You are surely correct about that.

barfo
 
Cippy91 said:
Lol yeah I have definitely ran across those videos and it's creepy as fuck. People have interesting fetishes but damn those are some brave creepy fucks
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That's not a fetish, it's mental illness.
 
There are people who would make a lot of money off of this, that's all they care about. They don't give a shit if it floods and is not runnable, they will be sipping stem cells poolside at their beachfront estate.
 
I'm all for public trans. But even 15 years ago, I'd take the MAX from the Mac Club to Mall 205 and back. Not a day went by when I wasn't offered drugs. And I saw so much weird shit otherwise.
 
Jade Falcon said:
And they wanna build that shit into Vancouver?

No thanks. You guys keep your over-crowded dysfunction on that side of the river, thank you. We're a peaceful city who has our shit together.
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What are you talking about? Overcrowded? Dysfunctional? How?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
We need to get north south traffic out of the Portland downtown core. We need a 3rd Columbia bridge but the one proposal I saw was to put one in between the existing I-5 and 205 bridges. What the fuck would that do for the area traffic?
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It needs to be put on the westside, between Hillsboro and Western Vancouver.
 
BonesJones said:
Where? Its almost all fields north of Hillsboro.
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Fine, make it happen.

Where would you have that freeway connect into I-5? It can't just feed onto 26, that thing is a parking lot already.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Fine, make it happen.

Where would you have that freeway connect into I-5? It can't just feed onto 26, that thing is a parking lot already.
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In Vancouver: Around the main street over pass. Run it down burnt bridge creek to there.

Down South? I don't know.
 
BonesJones said:
What are you talking about? Overcrowded? Dysfunctional? How?
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Seriously? Back when I watched the news, the Max had constant problems; everything from gang bangers and shootings to delays and stoppages.

I have no reason to believe that it's gotten any better. And I don't want that in Vancouver.

BonesJones said:
It needs to be put on the westside, between Hillsboro and Western Vancouver.
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No it doesn't. There's not a big enough population in Vancouver of those that use public transportation to justify the costs to tax payers.
 
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