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neWS 4 • The Multnomah Village Post Neighbors attend open house for Gabriel Park skateboard facility Tri-Met announces schedule changes to bus lines 35, 39, 43, and 45 Hillsdale during the day. According to LaPoint, the last Line #39 trip to Hillsdale will leave Lewis & Clark College on weekdays at 6:54 p.m. and Saturday at 6:44 p.m. The last Line #39 trip to Lewis & Clark will leave Capitol Hwy & Sunset on weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and Saturday at 6:25 p.m. Bus trips will be added to Line #35 Macadam because of increased ridership and subtracted from Line #43 Taylors Ferry Road because of lowered ridership. Tri-Met is also making a couple of minor changes to Line #45 Garden Home this month said LaPoint. “When buses were moved off the Portland Mall in January for construction, too much time was given to the operators on their schedule,” explained LaPoint. “We’re tweaking the schedule by a couple of minutes to improve reliability and help riders make their connections.” Additionally, Tri-Met is adjusting the timing of an outbound bus for Wilson High School (Capitol Highway and Sunset Boulevard) to arrive just after school lets out instead of just before school lets out. The bottom line of course is that fares will be increasing. 2-Zone cash fares will increase to $1.75. All-Zone cash fares will increase to $2.05. Youth/Student cash fare will increase to $1.40. LIFT cash fare will increase to $1.70. Most monthly passes will increase by $2.00 Youth/Student monthly passes will increase by $1.00. By Don Snedecor The Multnomah Village Post Tri-Met is making mostly minor changes to bus lines affecting Southwest Portland. But the biggest change will affect the weekend riders of Line #39 Lewis & Clark. According to Peggy LaPoint, Tri- Met public information officer, Friday and Saturday late night service on Line #39 will end on September 7. “There has been very low usage on these trips since the service hours were extended in September 2006,” explained LaPoint. The good news is that the line will continue to operate between Lewis and Clark College and THREE TO BEAM UP Tri-Met fare inspec- tors appeared suddenly like astronauts on August 15 at the Southwest Troy Street and 35th Avenue bus stop. (Post photo by Don Snedecor) September 2007 I’m not interested in learning.”) Stephanie Mohler, owner of Airspeed Skateparks, the designer and builder of the facility, suggested On July 31, the Portland Park Bureau that users could carpool to the site. held the latest in a series of public open Portland Park Bureau skateboard houses for a proposed 8,500 square specialist Rod Wojtanek said that the foot skateboard facility in Gabriel natural constraints of the terrain, and Park. About 20 people attended this the need to provide for storm water session at the Multnomah Arts Center, treatment, precluded providing any most of them skateboarders or their more spaces. parents. He said that a skateboard facility Citizens who attended offered in the east side’s Glenhaven Park a variety of suggestions about the seldom attracted more than 10 cars. design of the facility. He conceded to Feuz, “The conditions An older neighbor of the park, you described at Gabriel Park are a David Feuz, was concerned that the reality.” ten new parking spaces proposed for Mohler and Wojtanek asked if skaters of different ages and abilities could share the same space. The skaters replied that this is “something you learn to live with.” One added, “If you can’t, you should probably set up a ramp in your driveway A designer’s concept of the proposed Gabriel Park skatepark. own to skate on.” (Courtesy Rod Wojtanik, Portland Parks and Recreation) Feuz said that the facility would be insufficient. the “skate spot” in the new Holly Farm The Southwest Community Center Park [on Capitol Highway in the West [on the north end of the park] has Portland Park neighborhood] has no inadequate parking, and those patrons seating or shade trees for spectators. will simply appropriate the new Wojtanek said trees planted on the spaces, he said. The result will be “a periphery will provide shade when nightmare,” he said. (Regarding the they grow, and benches and picnic sport itself Feuz said, “I don’t know tables are “something we’re looking at. anything about skateboarding, and This is a pretty neat spectator sport.” By Lee Perlman The Multnomah Village Post 0005_MultVillageAd.pdf9/20/0610:04:13AM Work Portland Play Portland Live Portland You work on Fourth Avenue. You shop and eat in the Village. Now live on the west side. With expertise in Portland’s west side neighborhoods, our team provides unparalleled customer service to find you the right home. C M Y CM We don’t just help our clients buy and sell. We build relationships. MY CY CMY K Tom Secolo & Nate Schwalbach, 503.295.0200 www.highlandpropertiesnw.com