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ben, my worry is mainly downtown, where traffic is already at a standstill much of the day. i can't imagine making things even worse downtown.
the boxes also make me a bit worried that the Council is doing what I think they do way too often--deciding on the fly that they have the genius solution to a problem that they are not really sure exists.
the two cyclist deaths were a tragedy to be sure, but were they indicative of any increasing rate of danger to cyclists? That is, if you did a statistical analysis of the rate of cyclist accidents in Portland over the past ten years, has this been going up, down, or remaining flat?
The two cases were certainly notable, but they were taken as indicative of a trend, then a "solution" was proposed.
Classic policy making to be sure (read Kingdon't classic Agendas Alternatives and public policies) but they may endup being less than helpful.
As it is, we barely go downtown anymore, anyway. the traffic is just too bad and parking too difficult.
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