You Got Your Wish, Sellwood

Hey Sellwood! Enjoying the traffic? It’s exactly what you asked for. See, 30 years or so ago there was a plan,a balanced plan to route traffic through Sellwood into Johnson Creek Blvd. It included a four lane Sellwood Bridge, an efficient Tacoma Street with dedicated pedestrian and bike paths. But Oh No, you wanted to keep your two lane street, which was a hundred years out of date then. You even had it made more narrow. Oh No, you didn’t want your street widened. Have you seen the ramshackle buildings along there now? But you’re perfectly willing to let the MAX line destroy old buildings anyway. So what have you got? Cut through traffic along your side streets. An impossible crossing. Impossible access to your one wildly overpriced grocery story. Impossible access to your once-affordable, once working- class houses. TriMet buses which are incredibly late because of the congestion you asked for. Fumes from stopped traffic that could have moved through your burg at 25 MPH in 25 seconds. Now you can watch them sit, and smell the exhaust. Enjoy your wish. You won’t live long enough to see it corrected.