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To: LindyBill who wrote (233259)	1/1/2008 2:24:25 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793969

But the Federal planners force it on the State and city by providing money for it, and penalizing any double decking of the freeway. Portland got one of these do-dads right after Neil Goldschmidt became Carter's Sec Trans. en.wikipedia.org After that, his political influence was sharply reduced (check out the link if you want to know how old his girlfriend was). That didn't stop Portland from getting light rail extensions out to Beaverton and to PDX, and maybe some other places I haven't seen since I left fifteen years ago. The first one killed a guy before it was even opened. He couldn't hear it coming down the track on a test run. I can understand that. Once while waiting to cross the track the east bound train kept honking its horn at me, apparently trying to alert me to the approaching west bound, but effectively keeping me from looking the other way.