I have to agree with those of you asking why the New Boulevard is being elevated. There are only two places where our Boulevard cannot be flush with the surrounding streets. One is under the railroad. The other is over the canal. If we're going to have a world class Boulevard with a huge pedestrian median, we need road designers who think pedestrians first. We have far more streets than a city our size needs. One analysis showed we have enough downtown streets for a city the size of Chicago. So why not put pedestrians first in our New Boulevard? Someday, we might even make it pedestrian only like Barcelona did with The Ramblas. But ODOT has to build it first & ODOT still requires an automobile street before they would build our New Boulevard. But ODOT, please reengineer our Boulevard with pedestrians in mind & make it flush with the cross streets.