Bob R: If JK is right, suppose a car traveling 1 mile does 3 cents of damage to the road.
JK:: BAD NUMBER, BLATANT ASSUMPTION ALERT! That number is laughably high. I have heard a number of traffic experts say that cars do PRACTICALLY NO DAMAGE to modern roads. It is the heavier vehicles like trucks and buses. Remember a bus is well over 10 times the weight of a car and road damage is probably an exponential function of weight.

Bob R: by JK's standards
JK:: Not my standards, just a plain English reading of the claim for which you were coming up with convoluted interpretations to cover up how bad transit really is.

You know, this is a pretty good case for asking Trimet to cough up a few tens of millions for roads annually.

BTW, Bob why do you keep defending the indefeasible:
* Cars are cheaper than transit (less than 1/3 the cost)
* Small cars use less energy than transit, so public policy should be directed at getting people into small cars, not transit.
* Small cars emit less CO2 than transit, so public policy should be directed at getting people into small cars, not transit.
* Cars usually are faster than transit.

BTW, high density causes congestion and costs more than low density.

Light rail costs too much, does too little.
No Billions for Bikes, buses and bubble curbs

Thanks
JK