[PRCo] Re: Pen's get new luxury hotel

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:30:57 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pen's get new luxury hotel
> 
> Imagined tax revenues is the answer.

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It is the dollar that rules isn't it.

> 
> Portland is an enigma to me ... the light rail fits in with the  
> culture ... it fits there like it fits in Europe but doesn't fit in  
> Memphis ... it fits because the mentality of the people there accept  
> urban life. .....   The Oregonians are  
> very jealous about their culture and keeping out the riff raff. 

Better look again Mr.Schneider.  Number of Homeless on the
streets of Portland makes Los Angeles look like Paradise on earth.
All over downtown Portland.  Appears disproportionate to
the extreme doesn't it.

Yes, rail works very well in Portland, even the 'so-called streetcar.'



Phil