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by John Charles on May 3, 2013 in Commentaries, John Charles, Publications, Transportation

Estradiol valerate without a prescription, February marked the four-year anniversary of the Westside Express Service (WES), the 14.7-mile commuter rail line that runs from Wilsonville to Beaverton. While the train’s owner, Buy estradiol valerate, TriMet, has emphasized the steady growth in ridership over time, the truth is that WES has been a failure, buying estradiol valerate online. Daily boardings are still far below the opening-day forecast, Order estradiol valerate online, and taxpayers subsidize each rider by nearly $40 per round trip.

Although WES was 15 years in the making, it was always a project in search of a purpose, estradiol valerate no online prescription. At various times the train was promoted as: (1) a congestion relief tool for HWY 217; (2) a catalyst for so-called “Transit-Oriented Development;” or (3) a way of providing “another option” for travelers. None of these arguments holds up to scrutiny, estradiol valerate without a prescription. Purchase estradiol valerate no rx, During legislative hearings in Salem, representatives from Washington County claimed that WES would take 5,000 motor vehicles per day off of nearby highways, estradiol valerate prices. But WES is not even capable of doing that because it only runs 8 times (each direction) over a four-hour period in the morning, Discount estradiol valerate, and 8 more times in the afternoon, with seating capacity limited to 154 or less on each trip. The train does not run at all on weekends, cheap generic estradiol valerate.

In contrast, Cheap estradiol valerate pharmacy, both HWY 217 and I-5 are heavily used throughout the day, every day of the week, by passenger cars, estradiol valerate overnight shipping, trucks, Cheap estradiol valerate overnight delivery, buses and emergency service vehicles. Estradiol valerate without a prescription, WES only caters to passengers.

During its best hours of performance, the total number of passengers traveling on WES is less than 0.5% the number of motorists traveling on HWY 217/I-5 at those same hours, estradiol valerate in uk. Moreover, Estradiol valerate free sample, every time WES crosses Scholls Ferry Road or any of the other busy East-West thoroughfares, it ties up dozens of vehicles for 40 seconds or more. Since the train itself typically only carries 20-50 passengers per trip, estradiol valerate australia, this means that WES actually has made Washington County congestion worse than it was before the train opened. Cheap estradiol valerate in usa, WES also will not be a catalyst for “transit-oriented development,” because the train stations are a nuisance, not an amenity, buy cheap estradiol valerate internet. The noise associated with train arrivals was always underestimated and has proven to be a significant problem for nearby businesses and residents, estradiol valerate without a prescription.

As for the hope that WES would provide “another transit option, Order estradiol valerate without prescription, ” there were already two TriMet bus lines providing over 4,000 boardings per day in parallel routes prior to the opening of WES. Commuter rail simply replaced inexpensive bus service with a massively subsidized train, cheapest generic estradiol valerate online.

Several key statistics summarize the problems with the train:

WES was originally projected to cost $65 million and open in 2000. Order discount estradiol valerate online, It actually cost $161.2 million and opened in 2009.

TriMet projected an average daily ridership of 2,400 weekday boardings in the first year; actual weekday ridership was 1,156 in 2009 and has grown to 1, lowest price for estradiol valerate,639 in 2013. Estradiol valerate without a prescription, Since each rider typically boards twice daily, only about 820 people actually use WES regularly.

To truly appreciate the high cost of commuter rail, we need to compare it with other types of service offered by TriMet: light rail and bus. The following are averages for the month of January 2013.

	Operating cost per Vehicle-hour	Operating cost per Originating ride	Operating cost per Vehicle-mile

Bus	102.14	3.97	7.94
MAX	282.13	2.52	18.84
WES	$ 1,251.94	$ 20.31	$ 57.30

The operating costs for WES are 12 times higher per hour than bus service, but the public benefits are not 12 times higher. In fact, WES is not even equal to bus service; it is far less flexible, and the equipment is unused most of the time.

TriMet recently predicted that within the next decade, more than half of all bus routes will be eliminated due to operating losses if something doesn’t change. The Board places the blame for this on a labor union contract that saddles the agency with the costliest employee benefits package in the nation, estradiol valerate without a prescription. But the union did not force management to build an absurd commuter rail line; that was a choice made by the Board alone, without any consideration of the legacy costs it would impose on future riders.

There will be no happy ending to this story. WES is destined to be a one-hit wonder―an expensive monument to the egos of Westside politicians and TriMet managers. Taxpayers would be better served over the long term if we simply cancelled WES, repaid grant funds to the federal government, and moved the few WES customers back to buses.

John A. Charles, Jr. is President and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization..

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by John Charles on April 3, 2013 in Audio, John Charles, Publications, QuickPoints!

Synthroid without a prescription, In the past eight years, the all-funds budget for TriMet has gone up by 125%, but transit service has dropped by 14%. This trend will only get worse, synthroid online sale. Discount synthroid without prescription, In what future historians likely will refer to as a suicide note, TriMet recently predicted that within seven years, find synthroid on internet, Cheap synthroid in uk, much of its bus service will have to be cancelled due to the high costs of operation.

Several bills have been introduced in the legislature to address this problem, synthroid cheap price. Order no rx synthroid, Rep. Chris Gorsek (D-Troutdale) is sponsoring HB 3316 to expand the TriMet board and change the board composition, synthroid without a prescription. This bill is tentatively scheduled for a hearing on April 15, purchase synthroid online. Buy synthroid canada, Sen. Alan Olsen (R-Canby) has sponsored SB 826, cheap synthroid in usa, Buy cheap synthroid internet, which would allow local jurisdictions to leave TriMet at any time, for any reason, synthroid from india. Synthroid non prescription, Both bills actually could be combined. Synthroid without a prescription, A more diverse board could bring better oversight, and allowing cities or counties to leave the district (as Wilsonville, Sandy, and Canby already have) would encourage innovation and reduce TriMet’s unsustainable operating costs.

After 44 years, buy cheapest synthroid online, Buying generic synthroid, it’s time to admit that TriMet has failed. Its cost structure is too high and cannot be reformed, cheap price synthroid. Synthroid in us, The policy objective from now on should be to serve transit riders, not the TriMet bureaucracy, synthroid discount. Where to order synthroid, Transit advocates should speak forcefully to these points at the April 15^th hearing in Salem. Generic synthroid online. Low cost synthroid.

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by John Charles on November 2, 2012 in Commentaries, John Charles, Publications, Transportation

Buy estrace without prescription, Recently, the Metro Council received the results of a four-county household travel survey – the first such survey conducted by its staff since 1994. Among other things, the results showed that 81% of all regional commuters use a car to get to work, Find estrace online, compared with 90% in 1994.

Metro Councilors were very excited by this apparent drop. They immediately took it as proof that the agency’s anti-car, pro-density policies are “working.” Council President Tom Hughes directed staff to quickly come up with a favorable “storyline” for the survey, estrace in australia.

However, that may be a difficult task, Estrace us, because the evidence about regional travel patterns is more nuanced than it appears. For example, automobile commuting has dropped, but that has generally not translated into higher transit use, buy estrace without prescription. In fact, market share for transit in Portland has flat-lined for the past 12 years, as shown below, low price estrace. Travel is shifting to biking, walking, Estrace online sale, and telecommuting.

Mode Share for Weekday Commuting in Portland

1997-2012

Mode	1997	2000	2004	2008	2010	2012

Auto	80%	77%	80%	73%	69%	67%
Transit	10%	12%	11%	11%	12%	12%
Drive/transit	2%	2%	2%	4%	--	--
Bike	3%	3%	4%	8%	7%	7%
Walk	5%	5%	4%	4%	6%	7%
Other	-	-	-	-	7%	6%

Source: Portland Auditor’s Annual Community Surveys

This has caused a large mismatch between mode-shifting trends and public expenditures. Since 2000, we’ve opened a commuter rail line, cheap estrace online, created the Portland Streetcar, added four new light rail lines, Estrace without prescription, approved construction of a new transit bridge over the Willamette River, and watched TriMet’s annual budget grow by 142%. Buy estrace without prescription, Yet, the transit market share for commuting is stuck at 12%.

Even worse, transit share is actually declining in TriMet’s most natural market, estrace in uk, downtown Portland. According to the Portland Business Alliance, Estrace online without a prescription, between 2001 and 2010 the transit share of commuting travel for downtown workers dropped from 45% to 38%.

Other travel behavior metrics are equally puzzling. For instance, Metro regularly keeps track of daily vehicle miles traveled per-person (VMTPP) in the region, estrace malaysia. Since 2000 the VMTPP for Portland residents has declined by 4 percent, from 20 miles per day to 19.2, buy estrace without prescription. Yet the daily VMTPP for Vancouver travelers dropped by a much bigger margin, from 21.8 miles to 17.23 – a 21 percent change. Buy estrace from us,

So if Metro Councilors hope that their staff will create a favorable “storyline” showing how regional land-use policies have led to reduced driving, they will also have to explain why the drop has been much greater north of the Columbia River.

But putting these conflicting trends aside, the biggest problem with Metro’s response to the survey is the agency’s worldview that driving is socially undesirable, order discount estrace, so if we have less auto commuting, the region is automatically more “livable.” Not only is there nothing intrinsically wrong with driving, Estrace no rx, one easily could make a case that high levels of personal automobile use are indicators of an economically vibrant and socially dynamic region.

Increased driving is strongly correlated with higher incomes. Buy estrace without prescription, In the Metro travel survey, transit mode share for households with less than $25,000 of family income was 9 percent, but only 2 percent for households with income greater than $75,000. How many people in the region would be unhappy if all households had incomes greater than $75,000 but transit use dropped as a result, estrace order.

ODOT data shows that for every new job created, we should expect to see another 15, Cheap estrace tablets, 500 vehicle miles travelled each year. If total auto use went up because vast numbers of new jobs were created, would that make the region less livable.

And numerous studies have shown that access to a private automobile is critical to improving the economic wellbeing of low-income households, buy estrace on line, especially for those seeking employment. In fact, a growing number of progressive social service agencies (including at least one in Portland) are now running low-income car loan programs to help get poor people into private wheels, buy estrace without prescription. Should we discourage such programs because they cause transit use to drop. Estrace vendors,

Every trip has a purpose. If that purpose can be met best through a privately owned motor vehicle, then it does not make us better off to have politicians artificially discourage auto use by using parking meter revenues to pay for the streetcar, disallowing needed highway expansion, estrace no online prescription, raising the TriMet payroll tax rate, subsidizing high-density projects with tax abatements, Estrace no rx required, and cannibalizing scarce roadway capacity for light rail.

Instead of scheming to put a political spin on its new travel survey, Metro should use it to start a new conversation about how to define “livability.”

John A. Charles, estrace information, Jr. is President and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization..

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by John Charles on September 26, 2012 in Audio, John Charles, Land Use, Publications, QuickPoints!, Transportation

Buy ovral l without prescription, Last Friday, Legacy Emanuel Hospital held a breakfast to apologize to the North Portland community for bulldozing nearly 300 homes and businesses 40 years ago. Hospital administrators conspired with Portland urban renewal officials to secretly plan a 55-acre expansion in the Albina neighborhood, generic online. professional, By the time affected property owners were informed, the final decision had been made, cheap tablets. Cheap price , The city used its powers of eminent domain to seize all private property within the district, destroying a vibrant African American community, buy cheap online. Lowest price for , Hospital officials now admit they were wrong and promise never to do it again. Unfortunately, their colleagues at the Portland Development Commission (PDC) haven’t learned the same lesson, buy ovral l without prescription. PDC is teaming up with TriMet to build the Portland-Milwaukie light rail line, cheap generic . Sale , Sixty-eight businesses and twenty residences will be destroyed to make way for the slow train, at a taxpayer cost of $1.5 billion, canada . without a prescription, This is a tragic waste of money, time, in us, Buy in canada, and energy. The Portland-Milwaukie corridor is already served by five TriMet buses, including express and local service, buy online cheap. no prescription, There will be no public benefits to the light rail line, yet 88 private buildings will be lost, order on internet.

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by John Charles on May 16, 2012 in Audio, John Charles, Publications, QuickPoints!, Tax and Budget, Transportation

The Oregonian on Sunday examined TriMet’s deteriorating finances and called attention to high-cost union contracts Buy desyrel without prescription, , first approved in 1994, as the starting point of the decline. Buy desyrel from india, Due to the compounding effect of these contracts, TriMet now spends $1.63 in benefits for every $1.00 spent on wages, desyrel online stores, Desyrel online, and the agency has more than $1.2 billion in unfunded actuarially accrued liabilities for promised retirement benefits.

As a result, desyrel no rx required, Low cost desyrel, transit service has been cut by 14% in the past four years, and more cuts are due beginning September, cheap desyrel without prescription. Buy desyrel us,

What was revealing in the Oregonian feature was how no one was willing to accept responsibility. At any point during an 18-year period, desyrel cheapest price, Purchase desyrel no rx, dozens of people served on the TriMet Board or in top management positions, and they could have demanded change, buy desyrel cheap. But they didn’t, buy desyrel without prescription. Buy generic desyrel,

Of course, leadership starts at the top, buy desyrel no prescription required, Cheap desyrel in uk, and it’s the governor who appoints the TriMet Board. In August 1994, no prescription desyrel, Desyrel discount, then-Governor Barbara Roberts met with the TriMet board chair, Loren Wyss, order generic desyrel, Lowest price for desyrel, who strongly objected to the draft contract. Instead of supporting him, desyrel from canada, Desyrel pills, she forced him off the board.

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by John Charles on April 24, 2012 in John Charles, Publications, Testimony, Transportation

Buy tindamax without prescription, Testimony of John A. Charles, Jr.

Before the TriMet Board of Directors

Regarding the Proposed FY 2012-13 Budget

April 25, 2012

There are some elements of the proposed budget that move TriMet in the right direction. Tindamax for sale, I support the proposals to eliminate the free-rail zone and reduce streetcar funding. Rail passengers have been coddled for far too long and these changes will require them to finally put some skin in the game.

Notwithstanding this progress, the budget overall has serious problems that the Board needs to address. The first is the assumption that management will win its protracted dispute with the ATU, buy tindamax without prescription. Management has been forecasting this outcome for years, generic tindamax online, and has consistently been wrong. Examples of past predictions include the following:

TriMet press release, April 13, Buy tindamax low price, 2011: “The FY2012 budget assumes that a new Working and Wage Agreement with the ATU has benefits more in line with peer agencies, and consistent with those contained in TriMet’s July 2010 Final Offer.”

TriMet FY 2012 budget message, July 2011: “A critically important assumption upon which TriMet’s financial forecast and the FY 12 Adopted Budget are based is that TriMet enters into a Working and Wage Agreement WWA) with the Amalgamated Transit Union, probably through the binding arbitration process, and that the wages and benefits are consistent with those contained in TriMet’s July 2010 Final Offer....”

TriMet press release, buy tindamax no rx, October 26, 2011: “The contract expired in 2009 and both parties are now heading to interest arbitration scheduled for mid-January 2012.

TriMet FY 13 budget message, April 2012: “…the FY 13 proposed budget includes a $12 million revenue increase/expenditure reduction package, Discount tindamax overnight delivery, based on the assumption of a labor arbitration decision favorable to TriMet.”

Given that every recent prediction about the ATU contract has been wrong, it might be time to change the forecast. A more prudent forecast would be that the ATU wins, creating a $5 million imbalance for FY 13. Perhaps that should be addressed now in the current draft budget, compare tindamax prices. Buy tindamax without prescription,

The second big problem with the budget is the continued fantasy that rail construction has no harmful effects on bus service. Some board members may not be aware that in February 2011, TriMet succeeded in getting the Oregon Transportation Commission to approve $13 million in scarce OTC “flex funds” for the Milwaukie light rail project, by promising that TriMet will “agree to refrain from requesting Capital bus Program funds for bus purchases for the next three biennia…” This deal was made even though TriMet had been so desperate for new buses that it had put a $125 bond measure on the ballot the previous November. Tindamax discount, My testimony to the OTC is attached.

TriMet management simply does not value bus service; all the glamour is perceived to be in the ribbon-cutting ceremonies for new train lines. In FY 13 TriMet will sell bonds for PMLR and thus incur $3 million in new debt service. The agency is already paying more than $25 million in annual debt service for previous light rail bonds, buy tindamax without prescription. This debt is a major reason why bus service has been cut by 13% in recent years, even though buses move 2/3 of TriMet customers each day, tindamax cost.

TriMet has never demonstrated that the alleged “operating cost savings” of rail transit offsets the debt service and other “opportunity costs” associated with new rail construction.

There’s a very simple solution: terminate all rail expansion plans. It doesn’t matter how attractive rail may have once seemed; moving forward, Buy generic tindamax online, the capital costs cannot be justified. Buy tindamax without prescription, It is indefensible to impose service cuts year after year, while spending more than $205 million/mile for tiny expansions of the rail empire (7.3 miles for PMLR and 2.9 miles for the CRC).

A third point is that the proposed budget once again hides the true cost of labor, by planning for another token payment into the OPEB trust fund of $865,760. While this is better than the FY 12 contribution of $410, order discount tindamax,000, the level recommended by the outside auditor last July was $77.7 million.

The unfunded actuarial accrued liability for OPEB is at least $876 million, Buy tindamax canada, and because TriMet is allowed to carry this debt off-book the public naturally assumes that all is well when the agency announces that it has a “balanced budget” each year. This practice of shifting obligations downstream simply sets up a ticking time bomb for future TriMet board members.

While making the full ARC payment of $77 million would be impossible now, a substantial down payment – with the tough decisions it would force right now -- would have the medicinal effect of waking up the public to the seriousness of the problem, buy tindamax without prescription.

Finally, attached is a chart showing the juxtaposition of TriMet’s huge revenue increases since 2004 with the steady decline in transit service. This is a disgrace, buy tindamax in canada, yet the Board continues to accept it year after year, without even considering fundamental changes in strategy.

Business as usual is not going to work anymore. Tindamax pill, It’s time for board members to stop acting like victims and start taking control of the organization.

Click here to see February 14 OTC Testimony.

TriMet Financial Resources, 2004-2013 (000s)

	FY 04/05	FY 08/09	FY 10/11	FY 11/12 (est)	FY 12/13 (budget)	% Change 04/05-12/13
Passenger fares	$ 59,487	$ 90,016	$ 96, purchase tindamax without prescription,889	$ 104,032	$117,166	+97%
Payroll tax revenue	$171, Buy tindamax, 227	$209,089	$224,858	$232,832	244,457	+43%
Total operating resources	$308, buy tindamax generic,766	397,240	$399,641	$476, Buy tindamax on internet, 364	$465,056	+51%
Total Resources	$493,722	$888,346	$920,044	$971, cheap tindamax no rx,613	$1,111,384	+125%

Note: TriMet payroll tax rate increased effective 1/1/05, Tindamax no rx, and will rise .01% every January through 2024.

Annual Fixed Route Service Trends since 2004

(light rail, bus, commuter rail)

	2004	2006	2008	2010	2011	% change

Peak veh	625	606	613	618	601	-3.8%
Revenue hrs	143,784	137,973	144, online tindamax,469	133,776	128,435	-10.7%
Vehicle hrs	2,621,657	2,476,114	2,532,453	2,375,802	2,247,113	-14.3%

Sources: Annual budget documents; monthly TriMet performance reports.

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by John Charles on April 4, 2012 in Audio, John Charles, Publications, QuickPoints!, Transportation

Buy flovent without prescription, Three years ago, TriMet began operating its first heavy rail line, the Westside Express Service (WES). Flovent without a prescription, This line runs from Beaverton to Wilsonville during commuting hours on weekdays.

WES was trumpeted as the “next big thing, order flovent overnight delivery, Flovent online review, ” but opening year ridership averaged only 1,156 boardings per day, cheap flovent overnight delivery, Canadian flovent, less than half the 2,500 predicted by TriMet, buying flovent online. Cheap flovent no prescription, The agency lost nearly $24 on each trip.

TriMet just finished its third full year of operation for WES, flovent generic. Average daily ridership is up to 1,571 boardings, but each trip still requires a subsidy of $18, buy flovent without prescription. Purchase flovent overnight delivery, This is eight times higher than the subsidy needed for the average TriMet trip and costs taxpayers $7.4 million each year.

WES turned out to be a disaster, flovent tablet, Flovent canada, but no one at TriMet is accepting responsibility. Agency management simply plans to raise passenger fares again, sale flovent, Buy flovent online, and they also will be raising taxes on businesses.

TriMet board members are not elected, buy flovent online australia, Cost of flovent, so we cannot demand a management change at the ballot box. But the board is appointed by the Governor, flovent us, Flovent order, who is elected. It’s time for the Governor to demand better performance from his political appointees, order flovent online. Flovent purchase, . Flovent from canada.

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by John Charles on September 29, 2011 in Commentaries, John Charles, Publications, Transportation

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For environmentalists, order avapro overnight delivery, it was a badge of honor to abandon our 9 MPG autos and travel on a bus with 35-45 other passengers. Certified avapro, The oil embargo was very real. We had odd/even license plate days for gas fill-up in 1973, so it seemed like a form of patriotism to be frugal, avapro malaysia.

Times have certainly changed, buy avapro without prescription. Cars have become more efficient, Avapro canada, and chronic urban smog has permanently disappeared due to improved auto technology. That’s the good news. But the bad news is that many transit agencies are no longer content to merely provide a service to those unable or unwilling to drive in a private vehicle, avapro internet.

Portland is the poster child for this problem. Buy avapro without prescription, In fact, TriMet doesn’t really care about transit service per se; the agency is obsessed with expensive trains that are supposed to recreate the way entire neighborhoods function, through “transit-oriented development.”

TriMet is so contemptuous of bus service that the agency is building massively expensive trains that simply replace cheap buses. Avapro from india, And the replacement service is actually worse. The Milwaukie light rail line, now being built by TriMet (even though they have very little of the required funding in hand), cost avapro, is breathtaking in its sheer wastefulness. Avapro no rx required, It will cost $205 million per mile for a train that will average 17 MPH. It will make the daily commute for current Milwaukie bus riders worse by forcing them to transfer to rail at Milwaukie. Rail will never offer express service; but there are already at least four bus routes on McLoughlin that offer a menu of local, limited-stop, and express bus routes, buy avapro without prescription.

Worse yet, canada avapro, the train will take 68 businesses and 20 residences. Avapro rx, More than 60 mature shade trees on SW Lincoln Street near PSU are being cut down this week.

How can one government agency spend $1.5 billion for a mere 7.3 miles of train service, to provide a level of transit that is demonstrably inferior to bus service being replaced, avapro uk.

The answer is that TriMet is institutionally designed to fail. Buy avapro without prescription, The agency has a monopoly on service and a monopoly on subsidies. Discount avapro without prescription, Actual customers only account for about 25% of the agency’s operating revenue and none of the capital funds used for construction. So customers don’t really matter. TriMet does what its management wants, order avapro no rx, simply because it can. Avapro overnight shipping, I was down at Lincoln Street for an hour watching the trees getting cut. It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen a governmental agency do, buy avapro without prescription. The street is already served by the #17 bus. The train is simply unnecessary, buy avapro generic. Yet, Buy avapro us, for the 906-foot segment of Lincoln Street that is being wrecked, we will spend $35.2 million.

If you had $35 million to spend to improve three blocks of an urban street, buy avapro canada, how would you spend it. Buy avapro without prescription, Not on light rail. Cheap avapro tablet, Not if it was your own money. Not if you actually cared about the urban environment.

The Obama presidential bus only cost $1.1 million and rides on regular roads, cheapest avapro prices. Couldn’t we have just bought a few of those, run them up and down Lincoln Street, and saved the trees. I’m sure they would offer a much nicer ride than generic light rail cars, buy avapro without prescription.

The day the Portland City Council put private bus companies out of business in 1968 was a sad day in local history. Private companies could never get away with destroying a street like this or spending $1.5 billion on a pointless boondoggle.

TriMet is hopelessly corrupt. It’s time to admit that the agency is out of control and has utterly lost sight of its mission. Maybe in 2012 the legislature should consider abolishing this rogue agency, and starting fresh with a market-driven transit concept that focuses on actually serving customers with the best transit at the lowest public cost.

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by John Charles on September 7, 2011 in John Charles, Publications, Transportation, Video

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In the 1960's, SW Lincoln Street, near Portland State University, was part of Portland's first urban renewal district. Cheap astelin tablets, Dilapidated buildings were cleared, new development built, generic astelin online, Buy no rx astelin, and thousands of shade trees planted.

Today, best price astelin, Cheap astelin tablet, those trees tower over SW Lincoln Street... but not for long, discount astelin no rx. Best price for astelin, Sometime on, or before September 15th, astelin cheapest price, Astelin cheap, TriMet plans to cut down every single tree on the street... to put in light rail, buy astelin without prescription.

Most residents of the neighborhood are not happy with the decision, discount astelin online. Canadian pharmacy astelin, The street is currently served by TriMet's #17 bus line. If the goal is more transit, buy cheapest astelin on line, Buy astelin online cheap, why not just run the #17 more often.

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by John Charles on August 16, 2011 in John Charles, Publications, QuickPoints!, Tax and Budget, Transportation

President Obama is traveling the Midwest on a new bus Buy zetia without prescription, purchased by the Secret Service. Zetia buy online, The vehicle is painted all-black with tinted windows and appears to be the size of a standard Greyhound bus. Inside, find zetia, Zetia cheap, we can assume that it’s tricked out with the latest in high-tech security gear and telecommunications and designed with a kitchen, shower, zetia pills, Zetia online sales, bedroom and lounge area.

Given its purpose, buy zetia low price, Cheap generic zetia, the price tag must be enormous.

Actually, zetia prescription, Buy zetia no rx, it’s not. It was purchased for $1.1 million, buy zetia without prescription. A typical light rail car in Portland costs $4 million, zetia side effects. Zetia tablet, Regular transit riders might want to ponder that. A light rail car has hard seats, zetia order, Zetia internet, no headrests, minimal legroom and no on-board internet access, buy zetia on internet. Zetia in australia, The Presidential bus can go on any road in America, while light rail is limited to just a small part of the Portland region, canadian pharmacy zetia. Cheap zetia from uk, The proposed Milwaukie light rail project will cost $1.5 billion. If we cancelled the project, find cheap zetia online, Zetia cheap price, we could buy an entire fleet of presidential buses and run them to Milwaukie, with free coffee and donuts for everyone, zetia online without prescription, and we still couldn’t spend as much as TriMet plans to spend on one mile of light rail.

Maybe transit customers would like to try the Presidential bus for a few months before we waste $1.5 billion on a slow train to nowhere.

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