Oregon Ping...
The thing that irritates me about the city of Portland is their opposition to PARKING STRUCTURES!
Heck, the baseball stadium in NW has no parking near it. They FORCE you to take the light rail. And the first season, they actually let a ticket serve as an all day transit pass, but not anymore.
There are THREE buildings going up around the stadium and they are not parking...they are CONDOS! Good grief!
They wonder why nobody likes a day at the ball park.
Light rail is only useful for college students and single-forever hipsters who thankfully won’t be breeding.
I know exactly what you mean. Downtown is an absolute mess with light rail. I’ve never seen anything like it. Such a shame.
Anna Quindlen wrote a classic op-ed in The New York Times years ago, before Pinchy Sulzberger came to the throne, in which she recounted how she and her husband had been happy metro New Yorkers living in apartments for years, until they started talking seriously about having kids.
Then they started noticing things about urban living that didn't mix with kids -- like discarded hypos in alleys, and traffic. Off they went to Suburbia, which is still what it was in the days of Levittown: a nursery for the young.