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Old Posted Mar 11, 2010, 2:59 AM
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Originally Posted by 65MAX View Post
I know NYC has high transit usage, that's not what I was saying. I meant that NY (and DC and Paris, et al) were all laid out with massively wide ROWs and miles long boulevards that are much more conducive to auto traffic than anything we have in Portland. Have you ever driven in NY? Paris? The streets are crammed full of automobiles. Of course their subways carry millions of people every day too, but to say Portland can't have a subway because the car is "king" here is extremely ridiculous.
Yeah, you can certainly drive down those wide boulevards, but parking is extremely inconvenient and expensive. Just having wide boulevards crammed with cars doesn't make a city car-friendly.
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