The greater Portland area is your oyster!Here in Washington, we get a budget simulator that won’t let you raise revenue, but will let you cut spending on “the health of Washingtonians” to zero dollars. Or you can cut, say, education. It’s Sophie’s Choice, writ large.Meanwhile, in Portland, Oregon Metro has set up a site that lets you build your own transit system. Want an extension to Hillsboro? Click your mouse. St. Johns? Same deal. You can’t go everywhere and you can run out of money, so it’s not a paradise, but it sure beats playing the Grinch.As for our own light rail, we might make it across I-90 if online transit activists can win their battle with Eastside legislators.
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