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Originally Posted by bvpcvm
I'm not sure that no one would ever consider elevated routes downtown. It's not like we have a huge number of historic buildings whose facades we don't want to hide. What about down Broadway? There are a couple of historic buildings, but not that many, and the street's probably wide enough to handle it. I'm just not sure, given how much cheaper it would be than a subway, with the same advantages, that we should just automatically say no.
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Broadway has a number of buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Portland zoning code even has a special code section dedicated to standards for theatres on Broadway. I guarantee elevated anything through downtown Portland will never happen.