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]]> By: Old Town /news/2010/09/03/vancouvers-waterfront-you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-38586 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:18:07 +0000 /?p=58845#comment-38586 It would be a credit to Portland had they made the downtown waterfront accessible to the public. A Vancouver statement that could summarize Portland too: “It’s funny because downtown is so close to the water, but you can’t get there from it.”

Although in most places throughout the downtown Portland, the fact that the waterfront is only a few blocks away is lost on most. Naito Parkway and, in part, the MAX are often barriers like the railroad tracks.

Even in the Pearl and certainly Old Town one would not realize that the Willamette River is so close, but even if were known it is inaccessible. Even on the other side of the river inaccessibility prevails. The East Bank Esplanade is virtually unused.

A Perspective

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