Sam, why don't you post (in a pdf file) a copy of the contract that requires the city to deliver the tram or else pay penalties? It would be interesting to read the precise language that your former employer signed when she gave away the candy store to Neil and Homer.

As for "OHSU will move to Hillsboro," you guys are some lousy poker players. Anyone who thinks the rich West Hills docs of OHSU are going to fight their way out the Sunset Highway and back four or five days a week is a poor student of human nature. The city should have called their bluff. Instead you went all-in.

This thing will cost $50 or $60 million. And who will pay to operate it? Two-thirds Tri-Met, one-third the city -- like the streetcar? The insurance alone on this beast is going to be enough to suck the city's pothole funds dry.