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Compromise on Lake Oswego to Portland transit proposed
Staff to the Lake Oswego to Portland
Transit Corridor Project believe they
have a workable compromise on mat-
ters to study. The transit project, likely
to extend the Portland Streetcar line to
Lake Oswego, has been under study for
two years by several different groups.
Those groups included a Steering
Committee composed of officials from
participating public agencies, and the
Lake Oswego to Portland Advisory
Committee (LOPAC), the latter com-
posed of citizens from Lake Oswego,
the South Portland neighborhood, and
the unincorporated Dunthorpe com-
munity between them.
After considerable debate, last fall
LOPAC advised further study of two
proposals – extending the streetcar line
to Willamette Park, with “enhanced”
bus service to Lake Oswego, or a street-
car extension to Lake Oswego.
The group explicitly did not recom-
mend any consideration of a streetcar
route through the Willamette Shore
Line right of way, a former trolley and
current sightseeing route that comes
close to many homes.
“It was a compromise between three
groups that didn’t always agree,” South
Portland Neighborhood Association’s
Bill Danneman said.
The Steering Committee called for
study of a Willamette Shore route,
rejected enhanced bus service as an
option, and was willing to consider
a Willamette Park terminus only as a
temporary measure.
“The steering committee felt they
didn’t have enough information to
take all these options off the table,”
City transportation planner Mauricio
LeClerc told the South Portland Neigh-
borhood Association last month.
LOPAC members were angry not
only at the content of the Steering
Committee recommendations, but also
at what they regarded as a brush-off
of their own input. Project staff put
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the project on hold, rather than bring
it before the Portland City and Metro
councils with their own advisory com-
mittee attacking them.
“It seemed simple – the steering
committee was putting more options
on the table – but the LOPAC recom-
mendations were a consensus package
that was not meant to be torn apart,”
LOPAC vice-chair Verne Rifer told the
Portland Planning Commission last
month.
“People in Johns Landing and Dun-
thorpe feel very strongly against using
Willamette Shore. You’d have trains
going by less than 10 feet from people’s
bedrooms at 40 miles per hour.”
Last month LeClerc unveiled a
compromise. Before doing anything
else, planners would do a “refine-
ment study” to consider the effect on
private property of a Willamette Shore
streetcar line. They would also add a
permanent Willamette Park terminus
to the study alternatives.
“LOPAC is willing to consider a
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study
of a Willamette
there is a side-by-side study of its ef-
fects and of a limited line,” Rifer said.
“It’s an admirable position by people
who have nothing to gain and every-
thing to lose by this project. It’s a credit
to them that they saw the larger public
benefit.”
One thing that both the steering
committee and a majority of LOPAC
members want is a pedestrian and
bike trail on the Willamette Shore right
of way. However, this is somewhat
problematic. In some places, the right
of way across private property is valid
only for rail transportation.
In other places, notably the route’s
Elk Rock Tunnel, there isn’t enough
room for both rail and trail. However,
Planning Commission member Cath-
erine Ciarlo, a member of the Bicycle
Transportation Alliance, said that a
good trail connection from Portland to
Lake Oswego doesn’t currently exist,
and failing to provide one here would
be “a real missed opportunity.”
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