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Originally Posted by Blue Order
Which is what the BTA was needling Adams about. I live in Portland-- the biggest single problem with making the downtown less car-friendly is the Portland Business Alliance. They want every square inch of dowtown accessible to the automobile, because it's "good for business."
Another difference is that Amsterdam is naturally car-unfriendly. It was car unfriendly before cars even existed, while modern Portland, like most U.S. cities, hardly existed before cars showed up, and thus was able to evolve in a way that accomodated cars, something Amsterdam could never do. Now some people are trying to retrofit Portland to make it artificially car-unfriendly. Of course the businesses are against it.
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