Tigard Mayor's Statement on SW Corridor
https://www.tigard-or.gov/city_hall/...ridor_plan.php
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But our focus in Tigard has always been about our downtown – and that’s been a place of consistency. It’s in our Authorizing Ordinance, in our LPA resolution and was in the ballot title that our voters voted on – that the project was to serve our downtown. The alignment to Bridgeport barely meets that test, given that the downtown station is not in downtown, but adjacent to it in an industrial district. A great downtown station would not be outside our mixed use zoned land, on the far side of a state highway and next to noisy freight rail tracks. It would be close to our new mixed use housing development project, our planned public plaza, our Main Street and our existing transit center.
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Personally, I'm fine with truncating the route in downtown Tigard for the time being as long as it doesn't preclude an extension to the south in the future (i.e., the tracks don't end at ground level perpendicular to the WES line or something like that).