December 16, 2010

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The entire moving of Streetcar, moving Moody Street and raising the site 17feet is to accommodate MLR
They are going to hurry and start in January to help TriMet get the project as far as possible before the public challenge to their bond sales trips them up.
So reckless is the push that the fed match for MLR is not due to be sealed until June 2012
 
 
City leaders are so desperate they can be extorted.
 
Multnomah County pays for a study no one read
 
This $138,000 is a small potatoes example and so common other government agencies must cringe when seeing this kind of a story.
 
Metro, TrimMet, PDC and PPS for example have spent millions on studies, publications, handouts, brochures and other useless landfill material for purposes of posturing. advocating or for no other reason than busy work . Often it’s only because that’s what they always do. 
The PPS strategic plan a few years back was hyped as the hard work of many months and 700 teachers, parents and administrators. The product was shelved.
 
Countless examples of studies and reports used for nothing can be piled up from Metro, TriMet and the PDC.
 
Clackamas County recently hired a marketing consultant to compile and peddle a campaign to promote the beauty of Urban Renewal.
Every city in sight plays this sort of game.
 
Here’s  “another $1 million for Metro’s input; $150,000 for “public outreach” ”

But Steve Duin whines about the fed requirements for the LO streetcar and quotes, of all people, Judie Hammerstad, one of the most empty headed dolts ever. 

So what do all these studies and reports provide?
The cover Duin needs when parroting asinine claims.
 
“But the streetcar is the environmental alternative when a community is wrestling with carbon footprints, traffic congestion and our addiction to OPEC, “
 
What a pack of nonsense without any truth or merit. The is nothing environmental about the Streetcars, no such wrestling is underway or needed and congestion and OPEC are not effected at all by Streetcars. If anything the waste on these projects devours revenue that could help move traffic and commerce better. So the impacts from the Streetcar are averse to the hyped intentions.