Wow, what a mess! All this public investment to benefit OHSU and developers and speculators at the waterfront. I do feel sorry for those who live around the tram who are paying into the LID without getting any benefit. This just seems like such a scandal to me. How about renegotiating the terms to make OHSU, the developers and speculators pay all city costs back with interest? I still bet that stopping this thing would cost less than continuing.

I hope that the city has learned its lesson with this thing. I'm no libertarian, as I've said, in fact am more what you'd call a communitarian. But I see no public benefit in this at all. Only bad. It would have benefited the whole city more, I believe, if we had spent the money to restore the waterfront to wetlands and park. A much bigger draw and positive focal point for the city than towers that violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the view corridor ordinance.