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
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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
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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
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Reporters / Writers .........KC Cowan, Jack Rubinger,
................Erik Vidstrand
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