Mimimal Operating Segment for the Columbia Crossing Light Rail

[Chief]

Reference Chapter 2 of the DEIS, pages 2-33 and 2-34. there are color pictures on page 2-34 of each one of these MOS alternatives.

Clark College Minimum Operable Segment

The Clark College MOS ends the HCT guideway at the Clark College
Park and Ride. This terminus option would provide flexibility for future
extension, as part of another project, to either the Kiggins Bowl terminus
or the Lincoln terminus.

The Clark College MOS would include the same
three-level parking structure at Clark College as
the Kiggins Bowl terminus. Local buses could
carry passengers from a surface lot at Kiggins
Bowl to the Mill Plain transit station. The
terminus station could be between the park and
ride and the highway, as indicated in the
graphics, or it could be parallel to McLoughlin,
either in the middle or to the side of the street.

Mill Plain Minimum Operable Segment

The Mill Plain District MOS would end the
transit guideway at the new Mill Plain station
between 15th and 16th Streets and between
Washington and Main Streets, and could serve
as a shortened version of either the Kiggins
Bowl terminus or the Lincoln terminus. Future
projects could extend the transit guideway to
either full-length terminus.

This terminus option would include a Park and
Ride structure one block north of the Mill Plain
Station, as well as additional Park and Ride
surface lots around the SR 14 interchange.
Additional Park and Rides at Clark College,
Lincoln, and Kiggins Bowl would be connected
to the HCT guideway by local bus routes.

[Chief]

The MOS is what will cost about $3.5 Million a year to maintain and operate. Please notice that both of the MOS alternatives go directly past the Killian-Pacific Riverwest Development site...

I cannot believe that either of these alternatives would remove enough commuters from I-5 to even begin to qualify for that $750 Million pot of money, so how realistic are either one of these alternatives??

[Waterbuffalo]

(daydreaming..)

Remember the drum beat of "Lost" as the politicos go searching for votes to get this thing passed.. WB enters the wild searching for truth and meaning in this wild tale of woe.. He sees Portland looking over its shoulder and the city of Vancouver saying yes, we want....

He continues on the path looking at the boards that pass him on the scenic tour saying.. Yes, this will pass because its the only way Portland will allow the new bridge to be build. He contines forth with his pack, walking the heavily forested trail and on to the next sign that says, "DEIS: Fork right.."

In the next edition of my day dream, hope fully we'll know the rest of the story... ;-)

[Chief]

Thanks to WB for downloading these images for me. Here are the comparative views of the two MOS Alternatives.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/BLOG%20IMAGES/MOS1.jpg