Comments on: The Defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway (Portland, Ore.)

By: CRC labeled as "The Mt. Hood Freeway of this year’s mayoral race" | Bicycle News

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:35:54 +0000

[...] To my knowledge, it’s the most high-profile statement yet that draws a direct line between Portland’s defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway and the currently planned Columbia River [...]

By: Cars Kill Cities…Yes They Do « living the american dream in europe

Cars Kill Cities…Yes They Do « living the american dream in europe — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:34:05 +0000

[...] Here is a video about the demise of the Mount Hood Freeway in Portland and comparing it to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) in New York (from StreetFilms.org): [...]

By: PDX and the Sanctity of the Bungalow | Keep Houston Houston.

PDX and the Sanctity of the Bungalow | Keep Houston Houston. — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:15:46 +0000

[...] highway alignments. The first freeway to require bungalow demolition in white neighborhoods was the Mount Hood. It was a thick swath, with feeder roads and a wide median reserved fur future transit corridors, [...]

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:12:16 +0000

As always, loved the video. Thanks for the great piece Street Films! It's really nice to get some history on why Portland has become such a great place to live. Of course it's not perfect yet, but with active voters hopefully we'll get closer every year!

By: Tearing down urban freeways to make room for a new bicycle economy « Patrick "PJ" Ruddy

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:53:06 +0000

[...] that have chosen (or been forced by citizen groups) to stop building or to remove freeways have been rewarded tremendously, and not just [...]

By: Lloyd Skaalen

Lloyd Skaalen — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:27:48 +0000

Thank you Portland, Gerry Fox and others, for providing so much leadership in the transition from an autocentric society to a far more livable future! We are using this video and your experiences to try to influence our politicians to approve similar infrastructure changes in Victoria, BC. We might get there by 2020.

By: Jeffrey Jensen

Jeffrey Jensen — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:56:00 +0000

Great video guys! You captured the essence of how Portland's citizenry cut their teeth and were able to define themselves. You ever though about following this passion and becoming civil engineers? You have the curiosity and have done a good job showing the second, and third order effects. I say go for it. Fix Brooklyn, it is possible.

By: Haze

Haze — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:08:51 +0000

Oh, the debauchery of Portland's history. I remember when Neil was campaigning for Mayor in St. Johns. One of his main premises, at the informal rally, was built upon NOT building the Mt. Hood freeway. This topic was passionately and intelligently discussed among my elementary peers, at school, in the classroom...we were totally against it, even as children. I guess our teacher was a rather progressive thinker for that time. She commuted from Vancouver, Washington for work via I5, and I remember her bringing up issues of transportation and challenging us to brainstorm some environmentally friendly solutions. She'd be complaining about 1974 rush hour traffic, what a joke. Anyway, Neil won the election, and he did some good things for Portland--he did some naughty things, too-- again, we were just kids(so was she, Neil) and had no concept of all the political ramifications involved. Stump Town has always had its darker sides--ie: political corruption and organized crime. Trouble in River City. Portland, oh Portland. I love your deviant past. My Grandmother "waited" tables in strip clubs in Old Town during WWII. It seems China Town was happenin'! I was told that unsuspecting men would get shanghaied from the underground opium dens, where she and her Asian mobster boyfriends would sometimes get chased by Portland's finest. Poor guy would wake up at sea, and in a position of servitude. Can you imagine? "Dude, now you're a sailor." Anyway, it sure was a mess down there, when they tore up Waterfront and made the park, but it was well worth it,(especially for Bill Naito!). It cleaned up the seedy, unsavory neighborhood it had become. The City of Roses is growing. Living in the valley, I miss everything about it, and will always adore its sordid past.

By: Duro

Duro — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:03:46 +0000

Just came across one of theses "ghost ramps" and was wondering....glad to have surfed across this site on accident...to have my curiosity satisfied. I live in Ladd's Addition...would be noisy here if this had gone through. Now it's walk-able, bike-able.

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:08:40 +0000

Not only does this site look great, it feels like the future ... finally moving out of the concrete prison cells of IBM-think into the liberated air of a new millenium.

Wish I'd found it sooner!

By: PDXSTEVE23

PDXSTEVE23 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:34:27 +0000

Dave is poorly misinformed but it's ok we love him anyway. =)

By: kitten

kitten — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:20:55 +0000

Not true Dave. I-405 was intended to complement Harbor Drive, not replace it. It was the decision to move the freeway to the east bank of the river which facilitated the removal of the drive.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:04:00 +0000

What a scam, it's full of as many lies as the other side. I was hoping to see something honest, not one that misconstrues nearly every point it tries to make.

Harbor Drive Freeway was removed because of I-405's completion, nothing more, nothing less.

By: pb

pb — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:42:05 +0000

Excellent video!