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Light Rail Ineffective: Portland transit mode-share unchanged despite $4 billion+ in LRT spending

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on February 26, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged bad examples, competition, Dianne Watts, Economics, expensive, expensive light rail, global warming, light rail, Light Rail Transit, limitations, LRT, Metro Vancouver, mode-share, Portland, Portland light rail, Portland MAX, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, Sustainability, train, transit, transit mode-share, Transportation, TriMet23 Comments

Recently we came across the results of a study and article on Portland transit mode-share released not too long ago on the Human Transit Blog, written and managed by professional public transit planning consultant Jarrett Walker. The article is called “Portland: A Challenging Chart“. Walker and his friend Adrian created a chart which shows the […]