[PRCo] Re: "sawmills"

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Portland's Interstate Avenue line looks like it will settle in to be a
> useful line.  But what else would one expect in Portland.  It has to be
> the local mentality.  Downtown is still a destination where people go to
> shop, to be entertained, to eat.  They actually have department stores
> with display windows.  Remember them?  Maybe I'm missing something, but
> it [Portland] looks like a neat place to live.

Haven't been there yet but everything I hear makes me share that opinion. 
My wife, however, doesn't want to move to the "rainy" coast :-\

> tracks.   The whole LAMTA system moves about 210 rail passengers a day
> plus the railroad commuters on Metrolink.

That's pretty sad ridership.