Too many metropolitan area cities, townships and districts have an abundance of housing and a deficiency of these kinds of assets. A community which maintains its deficiency by over-investing in roads and vehicles becomes economically backward and culturally disfunctional. No additional road, highway, bus service or rail line can be built to counteract the deficiency, or lack of services, that results in redundant, long distance daily travel. Look again at the role of mass transit. Newberg really needs to build more local services, amenities and assets to complement its excessive housing.
Mass transit fails to reduce traffic overall because it is underdeveloped.
It receives little consideration as a intregal part of most planned development. If Tri-Met does not have a transit element prepared for a particular development, this is like a private joke. Laughter follows the suggestion that mass transit has any importance in planning. Developers not only have little interest in transit, but actually show disdain over the creation of public parks, suggesting instead that parking garages are a more appropriate land-use. It is not wise to leave unchallenged the developers, highway lobbyists and politicians who would have Oregonians invest in roads, parking garages and motorization rather than communities and farsighted mass transit.