I lived in Portland years back and they said they were going to expand the train to Vancouver back then. Why is this taking so long ? I live in Chicago now and the best thing we have is Public Transportation that can get you almost anywhere for any economic class of worker. The pollution has to be lower than adding more cars to the highways . Maybe you should do a study on how many people use the new expanded MAX line instead and the affects over all on the traffic now in Portland. Also maybe over incentives to people who use public transportation would help as well.

While rereading this outstanding article and feeling depressed about the possibility of the CRC, all I can think is about how much the Mercury is going to miss Amy Ruiz.

Wow. This story is so narrow in it's ideas it shocks me that an educated "writer" could be so simplistic. By this stories own numbers, 40% of the travelers on I5 are NOT from Vancouver. This is not about commuters! Traffic at the Fremont Bridge(In downtown) which is about 4 miles away is at a crawl through OUR city. This is our problem too. I'm not sure how you could believe that a new bridge would encourage people to go buy a car because it's easier. Really? And this "deter" people from driving, but Amy you drive a car. Why would we want to make transportation HARDER. I know most people only see cars on the highway, but there are businesses who use it to send people things. The things you buy. I think we should install a ferry system . Who'd drive then?

Stop the crc. This is corrupt boondoggle at its worse. The beauracrats of CRC are drooling at the mouth at the prospect of controlling this 4 billion dollar project and their contractor buddies will line their pockets with hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars. This money could be much better spent on projects that can benefit the local communties without creating this huge pollution factory of cars streaming into the confined spaces of downtown portland.