Letter to the Oregonian Re: I-5 North Expansion

14 May 2001

To the editor:

I note with interest that the Bistate Task Force alternatives that include light rail to reduce traffic congestion. What makes anyone think that light rail can do in the Vancouver corridor what it has failed to do in the much more hghly urbanized east and west corridors alreayd operating?

Wendell Cox Principal, Wendell Cox Consultancy

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