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2 • The Southwest Portland Post EDITORIAL December 2017 Reader remembers staff of the Portland Scribe I’m sending you this photo because I think (or know) that you know at least one of its subjects [former Post reporter Lee Perlman] and I hope you would like to see this old photo. Except Andrea Marcus, Michaela’s daughter, all worked at the Portland Scribe, an alternative weekly news- paper, in the 1970s. The photo was taken by Doreen Labby at a picnic at Kelley Point Park, sometime dur- ing summer 1974. At the time it was taken, Michael and Mary Wells, who had started the paper (in early ‘72, I think), had recently left the Scribe to work at the about-to-debut Willamette Week. Of the 20 in the photo, I know that three died in the last five years: Grant Raddon, Lee Perlman and Sue Sargent. At least they never knew Trump as president. Michael Wells died this past summer. May they all rest in peace. I’ve had this photo for years and finally got around to adding the identifying information. Anne McLaughlin The Southwest Portland Post 4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509 Portland, OR 97206 Fax: (866) 727-5336 email: editor@multnomahpost.com Future light rail alignment should be along Interstate 5 Metro invites us to comment on the Southwest Corridor route through our neighborhoods. The following are my views on the two routes the MAX trains could go through our neighborhoods from just east of Terwilliger to the Barbur Bou- levard/Capitol Highway/Interstate 5 intersection further south and west. I think staff is biased toward the Barbur Boulevard alignment. For example, the text notes that the travel time might be slowed due to traffic on Barbur Boulevard, while the summary matrix shows no difference. At some point in the recent past staff showed that slower times decreased the number of people willing to ride the train. With this obvious bias, the whole report is not creditable! Staff shows possible traffic impacts along Barbur Boulevard. I suspect they will be significant as they are along Interstate Avenue’s light rail line. If the train is placed on Barbur Happy Holidays from all of us at The Post Get The Southwest Portland Post delivered to your mailbox every month and save 50 percent! Makes a great gift! Mail us a check or money order or call 503-244-6933 with your credit or debit card. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. One year (12 monthly issues)...............................$12 (reg. $24) Two years (24 monthly issues) .............................$24 (reg. $48) Three years (36 monthly issues) ..........................$36 (reg. $72) Please send check or money order to: Subscriptions, The Southwest Portland Post, 4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509, Portland, OR 97206. Name Boulevard, I suspect the impact on the adjacent neighborhoods will be significant as slowed Barbur Boule- vard traffic seeks alternative routes. This will have a significant effect on our adjacent neighborhood livability and our ability to drive in our own neighborhoods. Staff makes no men- tion of this fact. No consideration of noise effect on the adjacent neighborhoods is pro- vided. I believe the noise of the train will be less when it is further down the Interstate 5 gully than when run- ning along Barbur Boulevard. As I understand the placement of stations, with one exception, they will be placed almost at the same locations, maybe a couple hundred feet further toward Interstate 5 if the Interstate 5 route is selected. I doubt the station placement will affect rider- ship to any degree. In addition, no information is pro- vided about cross sections of the street with the train and current conditions. How is it that wider sidewalks would be provided with the Barbur Boulevard alignment and not with the Interstate 5 alignment? We are not told the assumptions used in coming to these conclusions. They have not provided any es- timate of the cost of disruption of businesses and the neighborhoods during constructions for the two alternatives. That will be a major issue for many small businesses. Don Baack Hillsdale Don’t forget to advertise in the January edition of The Post! Call Don at 503-244-6933. Deadline is Dec. 20. Celebrating 4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509, Portland, OR 97206 Years in Business! Phone: (503) 244-6933; Fax: (866) 727-5336 general email: news@multnomahpost.com web address: www.swportlandpost.com 25 Editor & Publisher .........Don Snedecor Reporters / Writers .........KC Cowan, Jack Rubinger, ................Erik Vidstrand Copy Editor ......................Janet Goetze Advertising Sales ...........Don Snedecor Graphic Design ..............Leslie Baird Printing ............................Oregon Lithoprint Circulation .......................Rick Hepper © 2017 by The Southwest Portland Post. All rights reserved. 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