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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: It’s Time to Bring Transit into the Twenty-First Century
Description: Full-text: Portland’s TriMet transit agency and the Metro regional government have long tried to shape the city’s growth and transportation landscape. But it’s abundantly clear the current transit model is woefully outdated, a relic of the early 1900s. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this situation, accelerating trends like telecommuting, job dispersion throughout the suburbs, and increased car ownership among low-income commuters.
Cascade Policy Institute’s new report by Randal O’Toole, a land use and transportation expert, is a wake-up call.
In TriMet in the Twenty-First Century, O’Toole explains that today’s downtown Portla...