I understand they are raiding the highway fund to pay for light rail and they are misusing it in billions of dollars of other ways. Get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse, and there would be more than enough to maintain the highways.
Light rail is just another way of distributing the loot and laundering some of the money back into Democrat coffers.
http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=310
The gang problem on Portland’s light rail is a big problem.
Excerpt:
The light rail gave drug dealers and other inner-city criminals easy access to the suburbs, and soon they were intimidating and assaulting riders.
Goldschmidt failed to foresee that the cost would be far higher than originally projected. To make up some of the difference, ......Plus, of course, it cut its budget for transit police.
That's like no government at all...why that is like liberty.