About Metro
Metro Regional Center has unique facades and remaining mementos of this particular department store dating back to 1929
What is Sears
Known for a variety of colorful characters on SNL, this comedian starred in a series tribute to Portlandia alongside, Sleater-Kinney Band Member Carrie Brownstein.
Who is Fred Armisen
Metro is authorized to coordinate and plan transportation investments in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties, as guided by this document that once completed often causes it's previous project manager to take a month long vacation to Mexico.
What is the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP)
Metro's Parks and Nature Department cares for nearly 21,000 acres of natural areas in addition to these spooky landmarks.
What are historical cemeteries
As a roving promotional mascot for this City, Billy the Beaver often toes the line between Districts 3 and 4.
What is City of Beaverton
Metro is distinguished by this characteristic of being the only one in the entire country.
Directly Elected Regional Government
This Portland-Based cartoonist has gained national notoriety for his whimsical bold lined caricatures featured currently in the Stellar Cove habitat at the Oregon Zoo.
Who is Mike Bennett
Metro's regional trail system plan envisions this many (within plus or minus 100) miles of trails upon completion. As of late is 40% built out.
794 miles
What is livestock.
This ''verde green" bridge located in district 5 uniquely became the standard color for steel bridges in Oregon for it's ability to mix well and cure under any weather conditions.
What is the St. John's Bridge
Within plus or minus 100, how many total employees including part-time, full-time and variable hour does Metro have?
1,600 to 1,800
Serving as the 34th governor of Oregon, this political trailblazer became the first woman governor in 1991
Who is Barbara Roberts
Multi-Modal Mobility is described as prioritizing these five movements
What is walking, biking, rolling, driving and freight
Roughly 1 million tons of garbage annually is trucked out of greater Portland 150 miles east to this City of about 700 in population.
What is Arlington, Oregon
This former City in District 2 was the first new City in Oregon in 22 years at the time prompted by a 2000 Metro UGB decision, which saw it's demise being unincorporated within eight years.
What is the City of Damascus.
Metro is required by the state to manage the region’s UGB and keep enough land inside it for the next 20 years of housing and business growth. How many years is the Metro Council required to report on and consider land supply for forecasted growth?
Every Six Years
Named for this festive month and a movement which failed to topple the czar in 1825 but inspired the name of a 21st century band
Who are the Decemberists
Known as bridge city, Portland is famous for having this many bridges that cross the Willamette.
12 Bridges
Wildlife conservation is a cornerstone of the duties of the Oregon Zoo. Name one of the seven current species of animal the Oregon Zoo is actively working to prevent extinction of.
This City in District 1, simply get's it's name from a fish pond discovered by the sea captain John Harlow in 1872.
What is Troutdale
In what year did our agency officially begin operating as Metro?
1979
Once suspected of a poisoning attempt while legally battling the Rajneeshees in the 1980s, as described in the Netflix Docu-Series Wild Country, this Oregon titan also served on the Metro Council for nine years.
Who is Bob Stacey
The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) is developed annually, and documents metropolitan transportation planning activities performed with what source of funding?
Federal Funding
Metro Central is uniquely known to have this type of particular staff member specialized in partnering with a sharped beaked feathered bird to capture pests and rodents.
What is a falconer.
In 1962, two PSU students unknowingly began to excavate giant fossils of a Mastodon near the swamps of Nyberg Rd. now a library in this Metro district.
What is District 3, City of Tualatin.