Portland’s 50-year war on cars has been guided by the delusion that the personal vehicle can be regulated, nudged, or inconvenienced out of existence. The result is an overbuilt, financially unsustainable transit system and a planning model that has failed by every measurable metric.
Portland’s Transportation Disaster
The Cascade Policy Institute has launched a month-long series examining Portland’s campaign to reduce personal automobile use through transit and bike-lane prioritization. The series will culminate with a look at the 40th anniversary of Max Light Rail and explore how Portland got to this point and what it will take to restore mobility in the city.
Original reporting: Clark County Today (Vancouver WA) — read the source article.
