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Portland, Or. created a sytem using NEW cars. It's real, not a tourist ride with old cars refurbished, though they have that on weekends,  and does just what they're proposing for St. L.- connecting Light rail to ground systems.   http://www.portlandstreetcar.org/   http://www.trimet.org/streetcar/i...

See folks, this is what we can do.  This is the direction we are headed here in KC.  Population-wise, Portland is almost exactly our size.  Obviously, the are about 15+ years down the road ahead of us.  I'd also venture a guess that the reason it looks so dense and active is that Portland isn't as ...

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Here's Scott's Pt. 2. You folks'll  have to forgive the fact he's a Texan He's a nice guy anyway.

You guys 'll be interested in Scott from Dallas  and his report. The KCMO portion isn't up yet, but take a look- http://www.dallasfood.org     Here's nick from Portland's report from last summer too. http://www.extramsg.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26 kc q is your biggest asset...

Consider a new streecar system, such as Portland Oregon has done .They recently started work on a 2nd extension. The original segment clocked in at roughly $50 million. It circles the downtown, isn't a toy, and is an adjunct to light rail that connects PSU, the older, trendy NW, the newly hip Pearl ...

Blue Springs to Bonner Springs is way too far for light rail , which requires density along the route.  Heavy/commuter rail is a different story.  MARC has identified three corridors to explore for commuter rail - 1) east to Independence and long I-70 to Blue Springs, Oak Grove, and Odessa; 2) sout...

I notice from my detached Perch on the summit of the coast range, that the KC Transit crowd doesn't get it. You connect the folks that are most likely to use commuter services, plus the major attractions along that route. What that means is you should be looking at an E/W light rail route that would...

US54 west from Wichita serves as a defacto Interstate due to the enormous # of trucks seeking to transistion to I40. It would serve the same purpose as I20 does in Texas, connecting I40 to I10. I'd think that would be Kansas' 1st priority. I70 ending before the west coast will always make it a stepc...

In Oregon, sprawl is legislated through senate bill 100, which created the Land Conservation and Development Commission in 1971. Towns and cities have UGB's-urban growth boundries, outside which these areas big or small cannot develop. Resource land, farm land, urban land-it's all categorized and cl...

Here's fellow food lover Nick's vancouver report for you.
  http://www.extramsg.com/modules.php?nam ... le&sid=384

you can go everywhre you need to go, starting from the airport. extensive buses too. Light Rail goes through the West Hills, with a stop at the Zoo and washington Park.
Here's the streetcar lowdown-    http://www.trimet.org/guide/usingstreetcar.htm

If you are taking I 84, you'll come right  down the gorge. I know you probably want to do big city things, but a lot of the beauty of the PNW is outside the cities. I like Portland better than Seattle, a port city Portland is a realized KC,  a river city with the downtown full of people and business...

Isn't U2 also playing the big O but not KC?  Hmmm, ostrichs abound.