[PRCo] Re: OT MAX

[Jim Holland]

I am using Thunderbird now - upgrade from NutScape but both Mozilla  --  
this comes thru as attachment which I must save as  .EML  and then 
reopen donut know why.

They might have a problem downtown with subway flooding  --  riverside 
run thru GasLamp district west side of Willamette Does Flood and that is 
the level or lower they would enter subway.

True  --  from East to west, going thru downtown is an imposition but 
such is the nature of the game.       Great majority of PRCo lines did 
same And it was necessary to Transfer.



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> <pre wrap>Jim Holland wrote:
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><pre wrap> &gt; Joshua Dunfield wrote:
>
>  &gt; (Actually, I'm not all that big a fan of MAX,
>  &gt; but for completely different reasons.)
>
> Hi Josh  --  What are your reasons?
> </pre></blockquote><pre wrap><!---->
> As usual, this is my semi-informed amateur speculation, but in a word:
> underbuilt.  It's not that they were crazy -- I think there's a good
> chance it's actually the best that was politically "feasible" -- but
> it shows some of the problems with trying to develop a transit
> network incrementally.
>
> It was reasonable and coherent for the original Eastside line to run
> at grade through downtown, because that was the end of the line.  Any
> time savings from a subway would be marginal.  And if you were going
> downtown, the closely spaced stops were as likely to help you as not;
> if you weren't, it didn't matter.
>
> Once the Westside line opened, this was no longer true.  It took
> forever to get from, say, NE Hollywood to Beaverton.  Just skipping
> some of the downtown stops would have helped a little, but the only
> big improvement would be a subway...which would also help with
> capacity: MAX is 2-car trains because anything longer would block a
> street when it's stopped in downtown.  (Outside downtown, you'd just
> have to lengthen the platforms.)
>
> But again, politically feasible?  Who knows.  There was plenty of
> handwringing over the tunnels through the West Hills as it was.
>
>
> Sorry, don't know what that's about, unless something at your end can't
> handle my ancient mail program (I've used 'mh' for the last 14 years;
> Derrick might find that amusing).
>
> -j.
>
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