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READER RESPONSE


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This week, our readers take on Portland's twin terrors: traffic and growth.This week, our readers take on Portland's twin terrors: traffic and growth.

WINNERS

Did you cut in front?
I'll kill you, motherfucker!
This ain't no merge lane!

George Fosgate
Aloha

Yuppies blow red lights.
Biker has a paint balloon
Waiting here for you!

Scott Woelfer
Northeast Portland

  HONORABLE MENTIONS

SUV runs light.
Wait a minute, did I see
California plates?

Olivia Laing

Once it was easy
Getting home by Sunset, huh?
Welcome, urban sprawl!

Hello, Oregon!
I'm not from California.
Can I move here, please?

George Fosgate
Aloha

Yuppies driving out
Terwilliger curves sitting
Max trains race in peace.

Kristin R. Hubbard
Southeast Portland

Let's move the freeway,
Portland needs a new frontier.
East Bank's time is near.

Tom Wenning
Beaverton

Brand new SUV
To the mountains? or ocean?
No, up to Northwest

Janelle Miratsky
Northeast Portland

That rare silent morn
Fresh white snow awaits the kiss
Of bicycle tread

John J. Collins
Northeast Portland

Moist, slippery bridge
Gaping vindictive pothole
Good-bye fair tourist

Shanna Trenholm
Northeast Portland

1994,
Yellow bikes were introduced,
All gone by Christmas.

John A. Farrell
Milwaukie

Horse and buggy then;
Lexus now. Still no cruising
Allowed on Broadway

Arline Jacobson
Northeast Portland

Growth changes so much
Subdivisions were fields
Bridgework: Forever

Megan Denny
Portland

Cosmopolitan,
Our urban growth boundary,
Or drowning ant heap?

Linda J. Porter
Beaverton

 


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Willamette Week | originally published January 26, 2000

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