Your previous commentators are right. The city needs to adjust its transportation plans to a future in which traffic is throttled back by increases in oil prices.
I was concerned to see Robert Pamplin's organ (the Tribune) recently advocating more highway expansion. It's time to stop building more roads. Why drive ourselves into debt over capacity we won't be using much longer?
The answer is more, not less, mass transit. If Pamplin's friends want to reap lucrative construction profits, tell them to learn how to contribute to our future, not deplete it.
Every plan of any sort which the city makes in any of its departments needs to reflect the seriousness of the coming changes.
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re: How would you improve Portland?
Your previous commentators are right. The city needs to adjust its transportation plans to a future in which traffic is throttled back by increases in oil prices.
I was concerned to see Robert Pamplin's organ (the Tribune) recently advocating more highway expansion. It's time to stop building more roads. Why drive ourselves into debt over capacity we won't be using much longer?
The answer is more, not less, mass transit. If Pamplin's friends want to reap lucrative construction profits, tell them to learn how to contribute to our future, not deplete it.
Every plan of any sort which the city makes in any of its departments needs to reflect the seriousness of the coming changes.