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Portland Approves Plan For New Light Rail Line – OPB News
Photos and story by Gina Whitehill-Baziuk
The Portland City Council has approved a plan to raise several million dollars for a new light rail line from Portland to Milwaukie and a few other transportation projects.
The city is short on transportation funding, but wants the new light rail line to link four important places: Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Portland State on the west side of the Willamette River, and Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s CLIMB Center and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) on the east Side.
So council voted to create a new funding district encompassing all four of the priority areas.
Read the rest of this article on about City of Portland’s plans to extend a new light rail line that will service PCC’s CLIMB Center.
You can also view a narrated flyover simulation of the Portland-Milwaukie light rail (PMLR) alignment created with Google Earth. This simulation was posted in March 2011 – project design will not be complete until spring 2012 and is subject to change.