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Old Posted Aug 30, 2008, 3:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Pavlov's Dog View Post
Could you indulge me with a 3rd branch that goes up 217 to Washington Square and then down Scholls Ferry Road?
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.
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