A transportation project that’s supposed to be a city landmark, costing far more than it should? A boondoggle of multi-million dollar proportions, foisted off on an unsuspecting public by the people “who know mass transport?” Yep, Portland is having lots of fun constructing a simple mass transport option. (See 20061029.1400 entry.) More info here.

What I want to know is this: what the hell are they going to do whenever it storms? Cancel classes because the students can’t get from one campus to the other?

What I really want to know is this: Is there something about mass transit that makes its advocates stupid? Or is it the other way around?