[Pavlov's Dog]

Originally Posted by bvpcvm

w/217 i think there's a completely different market to be served by running lrt in that corridor - from beaverton to somewhere in the south. wes stations are just too far away from places ppl want to go. wes will make sense as long-distance transit if they expand it to salem or mcminnville, but in the meantime, "not so much" (btw, where did that phrase come from? i hear it everywhere!). you could have lrt that goes from beavert tc down hall, to washington square (with a stop near the wes station as well), then passes by lincoln ctr (? the 12-story office tower), then tigard tc, then hits the 1-5/217 office parks. combined with wes, i think a line like that would do wonders for undoing traffic bottlenecks, but i think it's way off metro's radar.

My thinking is that the Washington Square area is a major regional center in Metro planning. Their must be some sort of vision in the Tri-Met/Metro offices for that area to be something other than low-density commerical, office and light industrial.