Studying the Issues: Speaking to PSU's Planning Club

This week, Congressman Blumenauer spoke to Portland State University's Planning Club. Approximately 60 students attended, many from the university's Master's in Urban and Regional Planning program, to discuss current topics in the field, among them: orphan highways, the pros and cons of funding a transit system with payroll or sales taxes, and how to keep transit costs affordable.

"A lot of the issues you're studying here are things that Americans are really starting to care about and get involved in," the Congressman said. "Planning can be a thankless profession—studying everything from hydrology to air sheds to traffic patterns. But the things you are doing--they make a difference."