Sam: I'm afraid you and all your transportation planners miss the whole point and then you make policy after missing the point so therefore your policy is flawed.

I don't want to get out of my car.

And the dirty little secret in Portland is that no one else does either. And here is why:

My day starts with me jumping on the Banfield at NE 102nd at 7am. I get to Portland State at 7:30. After class gets out at 10:20 I drive across the Ross Island Bridge then down McLoughlin to my job in Milwaukie by 10:45.

Today I left work at 5pm and make my way across town via Grand Avenue to Alamedia Elementary school to pick up my son from camp. I got there at 5:30.

Absolutely none of that is possible via public transportation within the deadlines I need to make.

Stop spending money on streetcars, lightrails, trams, couplets etc. The city of Portland is awash in money. It just wants to spend it on other things.

Fix the roads, build more freeways. I vote for competence not visionary.