Metro
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Where have the Zoo parking revenues gone, if not to pay Metro’s debt?
The more I look into the City's efforts to charge people to park at Washington Park, the more interesting it gets. (Background: the City of Portland owns Washington Park and leases the Oregon Zoo and the Zoo parking lot to Metro, which operates the Zoo and the parking lot.) Two days ago I'd posted a…
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Surprise! Metro has charged you to park at the Zoo since 1997; you just haven’t paid
One of the documents prepared by the Portland Parks Bureau, and passed on to me by the Knower of All Things, gives a clue to why the Bureau wants to charge Portlanders to park in Washington Park. The reason isn't, as I archly speculated yesterday, that the Parks Bureau wants to discourage East Portlanders from…