Jeff Merkley actually said...

Had this taken 2 years less, 4 years instead of 6 years, then we would have many thousands of high school and middle school students who are...

The whole effort was to preserve farming and forest lands and it has worked relatively well, but it does not work well without good transit.

Half of all transit riders do not have access to a private vehicle.

You consider that a valuable use of public funds, to help reinvest in our own economy?