Still under construction at PSU Vikings trying to build more football success, fan base — SEE SPORTS, B10 PortlandTribune THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013 • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAY TribTown EAST PORTLAND TRIBUNE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ Quy Pham of Southeast Portland pushes a cart of groceries to his car at the new Hong Phat store on 82nd Avenue near Burnside Street. It’s one of two large Asian- oriented groceries on 82nd Avenue. 82nd Ave. shoppers CHEATER! get fl avor TRIBUNE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ Southwest Sixth Avenue’s left lane entrance to northbound Interstate 405 regularly backs up while the middle lane is left to vehicles such as this Audi, whose driver tries to of Asia squeeze into the line and avoid the wait. Studies show drivers of expensive vehicles are often more likely to cheat in traffi c situations. Ethnic groceries early every day, Northwest afternoon count revealed that about fi ll vacuum in Story by Peter Korn Portland resident Anne W. “Having half the cars at the intersection could tries to cross Northwest be classifi ed as high-end vehicles. outer eastside N 25th Avenue at Lovejoy more There’s a word to describe drivers Street with her 19-month-old daughter makes you who don’t wait their turn at a four-way By STEVE LAW in a baby carriage. And nearly every stop: cheaters. A lot of people cheat in The Tribune day Anne W. fi nds that most of the feel more life, maybe more than once did. Stu- Study drives cars arriving at the intersection are entitled.” dents cheat to improve their grades, It’s hard to miss the dis- willing to wait their turn at the four- taxpayers cheat on their IRS forms to tinctive aromas of Asian way stop and patiently let them cross. — Paul Piff, keep more of their money. Some foods even from the parking But a few cars don’t wait their turn University of wealthy people fl out the rules so they lot of Hong Phat, a new gro- home point: at the stop signs, and there’s some- California- can stay on top, and poor people cut cery store at the recently va- thing particular Anne W. and her hus- Berkeley social corners trying to get ahead. cated Safeway on Southeast band have noticed about them: The psychologist But University of California-Berke- 82nd Avenue cars that don’t come to a full stop to let ley social psychologist Paul Piff recent- near Burn- them cross are generally the most ex- ly published a study purporting to side Street. pensive ones. prove that when it comes to compari- “There Inside, the “It’s been my experience, whether sons, the rich cheat more. Much of has been a produce aisle The rich are walking or riding in the car, that the Piff’s data comes from observing four- change from is stocked Mercedes, the BMWs, the Audis are way stops and who takes proper turns with jack- more likely to go out of turn,” she says. and who doesn’t. Also, his observa- the standard fruit, yam Granted, that particular intersection tions look at which cars stop (and grocery leaf, baby has a high percentage of luxury cars, which ones don’t) to allow pedestrians bok choy, different because Lovejoy turns into a rush hour to cross in crosswalks. model to Thai egg- gateway to Northwest Cornell Road address plant and heading into the West Hills. A recent See CHEATERS / Page 2 the different other foods popular ethnic among the groups in growing Asian immi- the grant popula- neighbor- tion in Port- Saltzman land’s east Streetcar fi rm on busy track hood.” side. — Lou Elliott, Hong Phat land in the area east of I-205, plans new real estate agent joins Fubonn Oregon Iron Works and worked with state trans- Supermar- portation offi cials on the track ket, another snags new orders as design. push for full-service Asian-oriented industry rebuilds “It’s going to be tricky coor- grocery 1.3 miles south on dinating the manufacturing 82nd near Woodward Street, By JIM REDDEN and testing with all the con- sprinklers plus some smaller ones in the The Tribune struction going on,” Clarke area. says. “But we knew the free- And a third large grocer is Oregon Iron Works over- way was coming when we built Nightclub owners negotiating to fi ll the site re- came many challenges to the track, so we designed it to could object to high cently abandoned by Food 4 create the fi rst American fi t under the overpass.” Less at 82nd and Powell Boule- streetcar manufacturing Other challenges were not cost of proposed rules vard, about six blocks south of company in six decades. Now as easy to foresee when Ore- Fubonn. One rumored suitor is United Streetcar has more gon Iron Works decided to By PETER KORN 99 Ranch Market, an Asian gro- than 100 people a day work- build streetcars seven years The Tribune cery chain based in Southern ing on new vehicles for Port- ago, however. Simply copying California. land, Tucson and Washing- the streetcars already in use in In April, a bartender at up- Lou Elliott, whose real estate ton, D.C., at the company’s TRIBUNE PHOTO: JONATHAN HOUSE Portland wasn’t a viable op- scale Pearl District restau- company manages the Powell huge Clackamas-area assem- United Streetcar technician Alvaro Sanchez wires a new car at the tion. They were built by Skoda, rant Bluehour dropped a li- Street Station retail center bly plant near Interstate 205. company’s assembly plant in Clackamas. a company in the Czech Repub- quor bottle that was ignited once anchored by Food 4 Less, About 300 companies across lic, where manufacturing stan- by a candle and spread to a says he can’t confi rm or deny the country also are providing dards are different. Building a dispensing machine. Within that 99 Ranch is the entity. But parts, including about 140 in ues, the Clackamas County dump trucks already are goug- prototype based on the Czech minutes, the restaurant’s au- Elliott’s company is negotiating Oregon. company is facing another ing out the path for the ramp. design exposed its flaws. So tomated sprinkler system ex- with a full-service grocer that “We’re not only creating jobs challenge. Construction has Clarke is confident disrup- United Streetcar had to design tinguished the fi re, which he expects to lease the site, and here, but supporting jobs in the just started on a new freeway tions will be minimal, however. and engineer its own version. could have spread to the 50 he says it defi nitely will cater rest of the state and the coun- next to the assembly plant. The He says the company strongly Streetcars may sound like or 60 customers nearby. to the growing Asian clientele try,” says United Streetcar Sunrise Corridor will be elevat- supports the $130 million proj- simple vehicles. They are driv- “We’re very fortunate that President Kevin Clarke. ed over the track where street- ect to relieve congestion and See GROCERS / Page 7 Even as production contin- cars are tested. 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It’s about and 13 percent for cars rated in drivers who are distracted, the middle. They zoomed past Voepel insists. pedestrian decoys stepping into But Voepel can see why not the crosswalk 45 percent of the taking turns at a stop sign inter- time, compared to 26 percent for section could be a matter of at- drivers of the least expensive titude. “A stop sign scenario, cars. that might have to do with so- Yes, these were California cial status or wealth,” he says. drivers. But in 50 “You’re competing followup studies us- for time with some- ing hundreds of “Students one equally. ... I’m men and women in more important psych labs, Piff say, ‘The than you, so I have found that wealthy system to be in front.” people (he calls An even better in- them upper-class encourages dicator of “me fi rst” individuals) are us to do behavior, according more willing to to Voepel, are solo cheat and cut cor- whatever it drivers who cheat by ners to gain a prize takes to get using the freeway than people of less- ahead at carpool lanes.