Portland is a PR machine for light rail & streetcar

Here are Some Facts About Portland Oregon          

Cars Improve our Standard of Living

·	More Job Choices: Instead of choosing jobs along transit lines, one can choose from the whole area. More job choices usually means you can get a job that pays more.

·	More Shopping Choices: The ability to travel further allows a broader choices of where to shop and lets you choose lower cost stores, lowering your cost of living.

·	More Living Choices: The ability to travel further gives you a broader choices of where to live. This lets you choose a location that has better schools, lower housing costs or other better choices.

·	More Leisure Time Choices: Faster travel means you can travel further to that great restaurant.

·	More Convenient: Your car is usually just a few feet from your front door, so you don’t have to walk ¼ mile to the transit stop.

·	Less exposure to crime: You can choose your traveling companions - no drug dealers, no crazy people and no criminals.

·	Enabling the civil rights and women’s liberation movements

·	Making outdoor sports and numerous other recreational and social opportunities available to the average person;

·	Providing rapid access to fire and other emergency services and swift escape from natural disasters.

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