Submitted by Allanya Guenther on Tue, 10/18/2005 - 4:40pm.
Part of the success of our fair city is the comparative ease--up to now--of getting to practically anyplace in the central city core (meaning, east, west, northwest, southeast, southwest neighborhoods, downtown, and access to freeways. We are heading in the wrong direction making major thoroughfares such as East and West Burnside one way corridors. This creates barriers to getting where one is going, in my opinion. For instance, there is really no appropriate parallel street to channel traffic in the opposite direction of the proposed one-way flows on Burnside. This makes the city less liveable, not more.
I don't see why we need to invest $45 million in tax free development along Burnside. There have been enough boondoggles with PGE park, the fancy trolley and tearing down low-income housing for high rise condos for "those who can afford it." Believe me I don't know anyone who can pay $300,000 for a studio condo.
We need low and moderate income housing. Please put your focus on this critical issue, not more giveaways to corporations who will simply build more outlets for the restless rich who are so empty they have to fill up their lives demanding more and more places to go to spend their money.
re: BLOG: Smoldering Argument over West Burnside Couplet
Part of the success of our fair city is the comparative ease--up to now--of getting to practically anyplace in the central city core (meaning, east, west, northwest, southeast, southwest neighborhoods, downtown, and access to freeways. We are heading in the wrong direction making major thoroughfares such as East and West Burnside one way corridors. This creates barriers to getting where one is going, in my opinion. For instance, there is really no appropriate parallel street to channel traffic in the opposite direction of the proposed one-way flows on Burnside. This makes the city less liveable, not more.
I don't see why we need to invest $45 million in tax free development along Burnside. There have been enough boondoggles with PGE park, the fancy trolley and tearing down low-income housing for high rise condos for "those who can afford it." Believe me I don't know anyone who can pay $300,000 for a studio condo.
We need low and moderate income housing. Please put your focus on this critical issue, not more giveaways to corporations who will simply build more outlets for the restless rich who are so empty they have to fill up their lives demanding more and more places to go to spend their money.