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Originally Posted by urbanlife
Personally I would love to see Portland put that new bridge to use and have a light rail or streetcar line running down Division, and a light rail line running down Powell and Foster. One can always dream, but the realist in me doesn't expect this to happen.
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The new bridge is designed to handle buses as well. It even has a dedicated busway that from what I've been able to find out will handle south/east bound buses from SE Division Pl and SE 9th to SE Milwaukie. They even have their own traffic light at SE Milwaukie.
It's on the south side of the new MAX tracks, and includes a bike/pedestrian facility that I've already used. I'm not sure if I was supposed to, but the fence was open.
And yeah, at the open houses I went to the consensus was basically, "We want better transit. Buses are fine. Give us some ROW if you can, or at least some priority over traffic lights, and faster boarding. Keep the existing 4 and 9, and open it soon."
I'm not at all surprised.
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The people who live along the corridor just don't care if it's a bus, we just want better service.