Lake Oswego to Portland Transit Alternatives Analysis Study

Metro is beginning a corridor study to evaluate possible transit and transportation options between Lake Oswego and Portland. The cities of Portland and Lake Oswego, Clackamas and Multnomah counties, the Oregon Department of Transportation and TriMet are participating in the study. Citizens, business representatives and property owners have been selected to serve on a Project Advisory Committee that will meet monthly to consider issues and alternatives.

The first step of the corridor study will be to define a range of options to be considered in a process called scoping. In this first step, there will be opportunities for community members to suggest options to be included in the analysis. After scoping is completed in 2006, staff will analyze options and provide the public and decision-makers with information to help narrow the wide range of alternatives to a few that best address needs in the corridor.

Metro and its project partners currently own what is known as the Willamette shoreline right of way, a former freight rail route between Portland and Lake Oswego along the Willamette River currently used for excursion trolleys. A transit option that uses this right of way, with and without a trail component, is likely to be one of several options considered during the alternatives analysis.

To be placed on the mailing list for the upcoming study, send e-mail to trans@metro.dst.or.us. For more information about the upcoming study, call Karen Withrow at (503) 797-1932, send e-mail to withrowk@metro.dst.or.us or check the Metro website at www.metro-region.org.

Lake Oswego to Portland Project Advisory Committee (LOPAC) Members

Don Baack, SW Trails
Jack Caldwell, Marylhurst area and retirement community representative 
Jim Condon, John’s Landing business property owner
Neal Creamer, Riverdale resident, Palatine Hill water district commissioner, transit user
Bill Danneman, Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill neighborhood association transportation chair
Sam Galbreath, Macadam Bay Homeowner’s Association
Roger Hennigan, Friends of the Trolley
David Jorling, First Addition neighborhood
Colleen Labbee, Foothills Condo Association
Brian Lantow, Riverdale neighborhood association and liaison to Birdshill community
Ken Love, Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill neighborhood association president
David Reinhart, resident/property owner along rail right-of-way
Vernon Rifer, John’s Landing Condo Association
Jessica Roberts, Bicycle Transportation Alliance

Chris Schetky, Lake Oswego Chamber of Commerce
Rick Saito, Foothills property owner and North Macadam Development Council

Sandy Stallcup, 35-year unincorporated Clackamas County resident
Debie Stellway, resident/property owner along rail right-of-way

Bill Washburn, John's Landing resident

Mark Williams, OHSU