This is why a 12 minute trip by car took me 45 min to an hour by 2/3 buses.
Well, if you live in Portland, you know that there are (1) walking places, (2) bike riding places, (3) public transportation riding places, and then (4) car driving places.
And being a Portlander -- you will be adept at all four of them, knowing exactly when and where for all of them... :-)
And if you don't know all four of them, you're simply not a Portlander... it's as simple as that...
We weren’t Portlanders, we were Seattlelites. And I was a grad student w/o a car and not planning on getting a car, so public trans (which the Seattlelites think is wonderful but doesn’t compare to what we had back east) was the only choice.
Skywalk was born in Portland, and tho we weren’t there long, I remember it as a lovely city. Took the bus there, too. : )