No new freeways on the drawing board may be the case in Portland, but I don't think they'll be able to let the existing freeways die. Your attitude and that of the planners seems to be force mass transit on people. "Build it and they will come". So far, they're building it and people aren't coming. Without riders, there's no possible way to pay the operating expenses. The solution to that is what the planners will have to figure out next.