Tigard, Oregon Really Sucks

Why does Tigard, Oregon really suck?

Tigard has devolved from a rural, hick outback into the biggest traffic interchange in the State of Oregon. Tigard, aside from the strip mall Washington Square, has minimal business interests and cheek-to-jowl housing disasters. It is now, unofficially but in reality, nothing more than a traffic interchange between Hwy 5, Hwy 217, 99W, Portland, Beaverton, Lake Oswego and Tualatin.

How did Tigard, Oregon come to this disasterous conclusion? Tigard, Oregon has zero competent city planning.

Tigard, Oregon city plans:

1. Build housing
2. Build ugly housing
3. Build crowded housing
4. Do not provide sufficient services including, you know, unnecessary things like roads to service said housing.
5. Build townhouses.
6. Decrease size of lots to postage stamps.
7. Increase population density to equal downtown LA (no kidding, oh the ambition of hick Oregonians!)
8. Refuse to do anything to improve the quality of life.
9. Ignore all of the above and...build more housing with no attendant roads, services, trees, etc.

Tigard is a NIGHTMARE of a town. It is a small, rather uninteresting suburb of Portland but it dares to advertise its sorry self as a family-friendly, tree-friendly town.

B-A-L-O-N-E-Y

Tigard mows down trees and vegetation to build, you guessed it, the ugliest housing around. Unlike its neighbor Lake Oswego, Tigard has zero aesthetic sense. Just check out the difference between:

Tigard' main fare the world's ugliest road 99W:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=99w+tigard+oregon&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=45.428546,-122.777742&spn=0.004525,0.011373&z=17&layer=c&cbll=45.427276,-122.777799&panoid=nkdLloZzeci7ao_PAnzuPA&cbp=1,202.20932619374315,,0,4.496574291633835

Tigard's main street which sits underneath 99W:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=main+street+tigard+oregon&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=45.434178,-122.770951&spn=0.00905,0.022745&z=16&layer=c&cbll=45.430742,-122.770962&panoid=hueCnh9OzJg3eVh7ltXD6w&cbp=1,0,,0,5

Lake Oswego's Kruse way:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kruse%20way%20lake%20oswego&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl

Lake Oswego's main street:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=main+street+lake+oswego&sll=45.425745,-122.732005&sspn=0.018102,0.04549&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=45.434223,-122.770951&spn=0.00905,0.022745&z=16&iwloc=addr&cbll=45.430742,-122.770962&panoid=5G_NuqE3jskXgnqW9aD-wA

Tigard is right next to Lake Oswego but it may as well live on the far side of the moon. The two look as if Lake Oswego dumps its garbage (it does dump its traffic) into Tigard and Tigard just eats it up and says thank you. Bend over Tigard, that is the role you choose to have in this world.

Tigard is a disaster.