[PRCo] Re: Portland Green Line

[Schneider Fred]

http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=Portland+green 
+line+light+rail

On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

> 2009/9/16 richard allman <allmanr at verizon.net>:
>> Guys-there is  FABULOUS on-line 80 page brochure about the new
>> Portland Tri MAX Green line which I accessed via the Gogle news link
>> indexed under light rail today. I think(in my 'umble opinion!) that
>> Portland is far and away the best of the new LRT operations.
>> Have a look and see what you think. RICH
>
> I can't find it.  Can you post a link?
>
> I lived in Portland for a few years (1997-2000); I've never been that
> impressed with MAX.  It can't seem to decide if it's trying to be a
> local streetcar system or a major rail system.  I don't think it can
> be the latter until they run trains longer than two cars, but they
> won't, because of street running downtown and Portland's short blocks;
> and until they speed it up.
>
> The Tri-Met website is trumpeting that it's only 39 minutes from
> Clackamas TC to downtown.  By my calculation that's a whopping 22 mph
> average.  And that's the fast part of the system.  *And* I'm comparing
> it to the distance along I-205/I-84, rather than the crow-flies
> distance.
>
> If we accept that we can't have anything more than LRT, and that LRT
> has to be slow and low-capacity, maybe MAX looks good.  But I don't
> want to accept any of those things.
>
> -j.
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