Good for catching this.

BEST, what is your list of freight projects than can be done for an additional 6 million (or even the total of 19 million? Inquiring minds want to know.

For roads, 6 million doesn't do much. For bikes it does a huge amount.

Of course if you want to give it to the CRC for further studies, it can employ a few consultants...

R and Truckdriver, you both make excellent points, but I'm leaning toward the comment that doesn't sound like it was regurgitated from an inbred orangutan's ass, for what it's worth.

If we are going to spend it on freight can we at least stop wasting it on dangerous truck based freight and start spending it on the much wiser investment of rail based freight.

At this point? Give the scabies infested hipsters jobs. Go for freight.

Econoline, a large percentage of freight is delivered by rail to rail yards. But from there it has to be delivered by truck. Also, a truck can go coast-to-coast (with team drivers) faster than rail. Go visit any rail yard in PDX and see how much freight is delivered both to and from there, by truck.

Let's all compromise: Bicycle Freight. Everyone grab one box and start pedaling.

We'll get new bike lanes, create new jobs, and at least a couple of things will get delivered eventually.

I don't know about you, but riding my bike on the busier streets is a little scary, but its faster than going through Portland's slightly maze like side streets. So more bike paths make sense, especially since the amount of people on bikes is growing in Portland. Which means less cars on the road. Which means less traffic for the trucks. Which means they don't need more money for more roads because the old ones will have plenty of room. And offering more paths will raise the steady rate of bikers because we have this beautiful craze of more people wanting to be fit and healthy without diets and supplements, but its just not efficient to ride to work because its not a straight shot. Well, we can give them a straight shot.

@Allistaire How does the rate of people converting to bicycle-only transportation compare to the rate of population growth?

Right. I forgot everyone is moving to Portland. I stand corrected.

@Allistaire - Well, at least some people are, right? Also, we are having babies.

Well, not you and me, like, personally, but...well, you get it...

Haha. Well I'm glad you said something, because I obviously didn't take that into account. Even though its a pretty important factor.

@Reymont: Since 2000 bicycle traffic has increased by 181% while population growth has 1.1%



2009 Portland Department of Transportation Bicycle Count Report: http://bikeportland.org/wp-content/uploads…

http://www.pdx.edu/sites/www.pdx.edu.prc/f…