And if there's one thing the folks at Portland City Council and at the Metropolitan Service District (METRO) have truly mastered, it's density.  These folks and their legions of "planners" qualify as some of the densest inDUHviduals on the planet.  Fixed-rail is their religion, and they'll do whatever it takes to make you square pegs fit into their billion-dollar round holes.  As voters have consistently rejected the politicians' fixed-rail mantra, they've decided that you don't know enough to have a voice in the process anymore.  So you don't get to vote; they'll plunk down billions of your tax dollars and build stuff anyway.

Meanwhile, if you insist upon driving - or transporting goods and services by truck - suck it.  Avoid potholes if you can, and resign yourself to increased congestion and heightened air pollution as a result of your silly choices.  More pollution is great, because that allows "planners" and other bureaucrats to impose, at some point, mandatory driving restrictions.  They'll have no choice, due to air quality concerns. 

Never mind the fact that in the absence of "planners" and billions wasted on fixed-rail, there would be better roads, less congestion, and therefore less pollution.  They've spent your money to build train and streetcar lines, and come hell or high water, they're going to do whatever it takes to force you to ride them.