I think the situation is only going to get worse. They are beginning the first phases of an immense construction project in downtown Portland to put in more light rail tracks and update our water and sewer system. All the buses are going to be diverted to streets where they usually don't travel, stretches of streets will be periodically shut down. This will be going on for the next 2 years.

"The Next Big Thing Downtown" is going to make for some very unhappy motorists. Who are they going to take it out on? Not the buses...