We all know youre an indirectly paid advocate of Big Oil and their agendas of more highways, more cars more sprawl,less ELECTRIC mass transit and less Smart Growth. The little they give to developers is a great investment for future property tax collection. Do you think Portland is getting its land value out of a low grade industrial district on the east side of the river? If this was decently developed they could pull in 10 times the property tax they are now.

Freeways dont belong in a downtown setting. Vancouver BC has none! If Portland had the guts it would move these monstrosities to the Beaverton side which has been crying for a N-S freeway for years.
If it werent for the Big Oil lobby we would have a modernized train system by now to move much more of our freight which can move it at a fraction of the cost.

Downtown density would DECREASE congestion! Thats what happens when the downtown workers are close enough to walk or hop a streetcar to work! No-brainer there.

Big oil also pays its think tanks to try to deny global warming so we already know where youre coming from there.

No they dont ALL commute to downtown every day but a probably a majority of them do.

No I'm not a developer and I have absolutely no monetary vested intereest in what I'm saying unlike you. You Libertarians are really a sorry lot.