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Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 1 – High-Capacity Projects
Last Wednesday, Chris sat down with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane for a discussion focused on your questions. This has become a sort of annual tradition for Portland Transport, and this year we were very pleased to be hosted by the Portland Opera – the Opera headquarters is located on the east bank of the Willamette just…
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A reminder: Transfers Need Frequency
In the recent SW Corridor thread, the prospect of a LRT line connecting Tigard TC with Washington Square and/or Beaverton TC came up. Such a thing is outside the scope of the SW Corridor project as currently defined, but might well be a longer-term project for the metro area. One specific question that came up…
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Updated: SW Corridor Options About to be Narrowed
Update: 3/20/14 Maps of the potential alignments as well as the options proposed for elimination are now available at Metro’s web site. Original Post: 3/19/14 This article on Metro’s site talks about some of the options likely to be removed from consideration in April by the project steering committee. I mourn the tunnel from Hillsdale…
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NOW is the Time to Pay Attention to the SW Corridor
The “purpose and need” statement for the SW Corridor project is now out for review. This is perhaps one of the most critical documents in the history of the project. The purpose and need statement becomes the yardstick for all future decisions in the project. Arguably a flawed purpose and need statement is what allowed…
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Southwest Corridor takes one more step forward
At a Metro Council work session on Tuesday, June 11, the project steering committee presented some draft recommendations to the Metro Council. The recommendations are still in draft at this point, and the Council took no action, but here’s what did get recommended, based on prior work and community feedback: HCT corridor should stretch (eventually)…