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
