"Salvage" is the right word for Milwaukie Light Rail. There are many movements coursing through the metro area to simply ask voter approval of these kinds of projects. And it isn't too late.

Even in the details there is serious problems. SoWhat's bonding capacity has come to a standstill as noted by PDC's financial staff in this week's URAC meeting. Municipal Bonding can't help build any of the SoWhat projects.

Besides the Clackamas Co. petitions on vehicle fees and urban renewal that helps pay for MLR, other jurisdictions like Lake Oswego are working to have similar petitions.

There's state legislation being considered that will affect MLR.

There's possible initiative/legal action on TriMet's funding/taxing procedures that would affect MLR.

Then there is the political reality developing concerning MLR, both locally and at the federal level.

Lastly, there's simply the economic reality here and nationally affecting MLR.

lw,
Working late last night, rather tired and began quickly reading your comments. .

There are many movements coursing through the metro area to simply ask voter approval of these kinds of projects. And it isn't too late.

My read: There are many movements cursing through the metro area . . .

There's possible initiative/legal action on TriMet's funding/taxing procedures that would affect MLR.

My read: There's possible initiative/legal action on TriMud's funding/ . . .

What can I say, maybe TriMud is more like it, person I was quickly reading this to said more like TriMutt.

Yes, "Salvage" is a good name.

Another great plan from our leaders - Build more empty buildings with other people's money. They already have a mixed use downtown and can't keep retail in the street level spaces.

They never learn.

Milwaukie light rail project in "salvage" mode

Milwaukie light rail project in "savage" mode?

Re: "Michole Jensen, transportation chair of the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek Neighborhood Association"

The neighborhood association (NA) structure long ago became a vehicle for the distribution of the urges and inclinations of City and Metro government. That is, an NA more rarely speaks for a neighborhood than for the extremely few people who attend NA meetings. Many of those few find an NA a useful steppingstone to direct city employment. The suggestion that an NA is in any way representative of the neighborhood burdened by it is as nostalgic as the memory of Neil Goldschmidt -- who established the NA structure -- as a public servant.

"the rail types want some unidentified private party to build a cutesy train station..."

>>>> RAIL TYPES = RAIL FANS (like in their 'hobby') who have infused themselves into all parts of the transit agenda here. Of course, they will do ANYTHING to salvage this project, based on their fanaticism for their favorite transit mode.

What's really galling is that the planned structure doesn't even look like a railroad station; much less will function like a railroad station. It's a big, oversized building, that has a few hints of architectural elements of a railroad station, that just happens to be proposed to be built near a proposed light rail line.

The planners of this light rail line and this building are dreaming too big and large and trying to make something that doesn't exist... If you want to build a railroad station, why not just build a replica of the station that once existed in Milwaukie? (Hint: It was MUCH smaller, was of wood construction, and had just a small waiting room, ticket office and baggage room.)