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Portland-Area Commuters Using Transit
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1980 1990 2000 2007
Percent of Total Commuters
Source: Census Bureau
Portland-Area Commuters
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Auto Transit
2000 2007 Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Downtown Portland Commuters
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Auto Transit Walk/bike
2001 2007 Source: Portland Business Alliance
““High-Capacity High-Capacity Transit”?Transit”?
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““Rapid Transit”?Rapid Transit”?
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““Development-Oriented Development-Oriented Transit”?Transit”?
“We have not seen any of the kind of development—of a mid-rise, higher-density, mixed-use, mixed-income type—that we would’ve liked to have seen” along the MAX line.
—Mike Saba, Portland City Planner, 1996
“We are in the hottest real estate market in the country,” yet “most of those sites [along the MAX line] are still vacant.”
—Charles Hales, City Commissioner, 1996
$72.6
$75.0
$335.0
$164.2
Urban Renewal (TIF) Districts (subsidies in
millions)
$167.5$233.9$165.0
$66.3
$288.6
$143.6
“It is a myth to think that the market will take care of development along transit corridors.”
—Charles Hales, City Commissioner, 1996
“The $55 million streetcar line has sparked more than $1.5 billion (and growing) in new development.”
—Charles Hales, 2006,
now with HDR
“Urban rail transit investments rarely ‘create’ new growth, but more typically redistribute growth that would have taken place without the investment.”
Cervero & Seskin, FTA Report #TCRP-7
Are TODs Successful?Are TODs Successful?
Is Light Rail “Green”?Is Light Rail “Green”?
Is Light Rail Is Light Rail Affordable?Affordable?
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