Portland is a PR machine for light rail & streetcar
Here are Some Facts About Portland Oregon
“It must always be remembered how cost-effectiveness works in the public sector: the cost IS the benefit.” - author unknown
Cars Improve our Standard of Living
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More Job Choices: Instead of choosing jobs along transit lines, one can choose from the whole area. More job choices usually means you can get a job that pays more.
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More Shopping Choices: The ability to travel further allows a broader choices of where to shop and lets you choose lower cost stores, lowering your cost of living.
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More Living Choices: The ability to travel further gives you a broader choices of where to live. This lets you choose a location that has better schools, lower housing costs or other better choices.
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More Leisure Time Choices: Faster travel means you can travel further to that great restaurant.
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More Convenient: Your car is usually just a few feet from your front door, so you don’t have to walk ¼ mile to the transit stop.
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Less exposure to crime: You can choose your traveling companions - no drug dealers, no crazy people and no criminals.
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Enabling the civil rights and women’s liberation movements
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Making outdoor sports and numerous other recreational and social opportunities available to the average person;
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Providing rapid access to fire and other emergency services and swift escape from natural disasters.
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“In many parts of Minnesota, the path out of poverty is best traveled by car.” http://www.startribune.com/on-wheels-from-welfare-to-self-sufficiency/296275261/
“Yet to qualify for assistance, many families may be forced to give up the most effective tool they have in the fight against poverty and unemployment: their car.” http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/19/opinion/oe-obrien19
“Research has shown that a parent with a car is more likely to be employed and to work more hours than a parent without a car. A reliable automobile can provide parents with access to a greater array of employment opportunities.” http://www.cbpp.org/archives/11-8-01wel.htm
“welfare reform legislation makes clients going to work the principal objective. To aid them in this endeavor, several states have begun programs that get cars to clients,...”
This has a list of programs getting cars to the needy to improve their getting work
https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS98/rpt%5Colr%5Chtm/98-R-1017.htm
There are a lot of programs around the country to help low income people get cars to get jobs or better jobs: “Chart of Car Ownership Programs to Serve Low-Income Earners”
http://www.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/articlefiles/car_sharing_appendix_A.pdf
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Cheaper & Better Transit |
EuroTranistShareLoss |
Elderly Travel |
GM & The Streetcar |
Commute Time Chart |
Top 10 Bus |
Clackamas Public Safety |
transit_congestion |
McLoughlin Plan |
CRC_Planning |
Zoneing Increases Cost, Hurts Economy |
High Rise |