With a signal at Stephens on Grand and King, access to this point from the inner East Side will be easier, and serves a block of folks who are south of Clay and north of Sherman or so. An alternative would have been to use the west sidewalk on the King viaduct and walk/bike south, but a stairway/ramp at Caruthers was not replaced, so you’d have to travel way south on the new viaduct, and then north again on 4th. Even a stairway only at the Sherman alignment would be helpful to some, but you’d have to argue that the ramp at Ivon/Division Place is equal facilitation for the disabled.

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However, the next several corridors for full evaluation are not selected yet. I believe that the candidates are all either in the Central City or in East Portland (e.g., lines that could branch from a Green Line station).

Another idea that should get a proper hearing is to use the rail corridor between L.O. and Milwaukie, “The Forgotten Bridge” as Jim Howell calls it. A simple rail shuttle between the little towns would generate ridership, especially after Milwaukie Max is completed.

The Milwaukie MAX color could be “cherry” or “bing”. :^)

I’d like to see someone unaffiliated with Metro put together a non-partisan site to collate blog postings pertaining to specific questions, giving people easy access to a range of views. Sort of what the election pamphlet does… That will help contextualize issues and questions and reduce the influence of whoever writes the survey.