I heard about this as soon as I landed. First of all, I have to tell you I never heard the expression “couplet” and you know what that tells me? It’s transportation officials re-packaging something that was true, was thinking thirty years ago. It is so out of date, I was shocked to hear that anyone today would turn a two-way street into a one-way street. The reverse is happening in cities everywhere and streets are enlivened by two-way traffic. It helps calm them. A one-way street is like a highway through a neighborhood. It should never be meant to happen. But what really appalled me is Portland is the beacon. You invented what every city is now copying. When I was here in the late 70’s, Neil Goldschmidt led the country in this. And it started here. You were the first to turn highway money in for mass transit money. He went to Washington and made it possible for all of us to do the same which we did in New York after we killed Westway, we turned it in for transit money. You were the first—well, you were not the first—-but you and San Diego were the first ones to bring light rail back to the city. You were the first to add the streetcar which every community in this country had population of 2,500 or more. You have an integrated transit system. You have walkable streets. You have vibrant streets. The idea of creating a speeding one-way street boggles my mind only because it’s in Portland. Phoenix, maybe; Saint Louis, probably; Cleveland, definitely. But Portland—-no way.