Mike Lindberg, chairman of the non-profit corporation that's been pushing the tram, says that the organization has served its purpose and should dissolve. So says the Tribune, anyway, in today's issue.
But here's how the Tribune put it: "Mike Lindberg, chairman of the board of Portland Aerial Tram Inc., said he will recommend dissolving the organization when the group meets Monday afternoon. According to Lindberg, PATI has completed its primary goal of coordinating a design competition for the tram and is not set up to meet the project’s most pressing needs — raising the $15 million needed to complete it or managing the day-to-day construction requirements."
There's one problem: Mr. Lindberg's well-done PATI isn't Portland Aerial Tram, Inc.; it's Portland Aerial Transportation, Inc., which is the non-prpfit that coordinated the design competition. The other PATI, Portland Aerial Tram, Inc., is a for-profit corporation of unknown purpose, formed and apparently headed by Jim Davis. I wrote about the two PATIs here. The organizers of the second PATI may have chosen its name to confuse the public, and it's apparently confused either the Tribune or Mr. Lindberg.