Portland’s light rail system hasn’t expanded in ten years, has no plans to do so in the future btw
But don’t worry we’ve got billions lined up to spend on continued freeway expansions!
This is a largely a fault of different parts of the city not speaking to each other. The bike lane has been planned since 2018; the building went through the design review process in 2020.
There's no good reason why the bike lane wasn't been as part of the Public Works Permit for the building.
Uh...not an e-bike
Definitely not an e-bike
And this isn't an e-bike
But this is not an e-bike
Can anyone tell me what the bike industry and/or People For Bikes are doing about the way e-bikes are being blamed for havoc caused by people riding electric motorcycles?!!?
WAY MORE THAN HALF THE STORIES ABOUT DEATHS CAUSED BY E-BIKES DO NOT INVOLVE E-BIKES. THIS IS KIND OF IMPORTANT.
There’s no shortage of professionally licensed traffic engineers who will tell you that decommissioning I-5 is impossible, but also can’t explain how Vancouver BC functions (almost too well, given housing demand) with no freeway running through the center of the city
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Please let the streetcar through 😉
![Cartoon with transportation commissioner asking “Another new highway?!” And a transportation planner [engineer] replying “the MODEL made me do it.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:thigatosnyxffhfeyxgaahdf/bafkreifeosxctaa7qfcdyp2lz3msn3honrbv255z3gdlqprqzxr4pjxwtm)
Cartoon with transportation commissioner asking “Another new highway?!” And a transportation planner [engineer] replying “the MODEL made me do it.”
“Traffic models are frequently full of faulty assumptions, and rarely understand actual human behaviour in the context of change and choices. Never let a traffic model tell you what to do. Decide what you WANT to happen, and design how to get there.” — @brenttoderian.bsky.social #UrbanTruth
It would be one thing if the policy behind the desired result of the ballot measure was actually exciting or a worthwhile investment. It's not- it's just a blank check for ODOT to keep building roads.
CityNerd identifies Eastbank I-5 as one of the top 10 candidates nationwide for a freeway teardown! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiNp...
Doug Allen is another activist still around from those days
“Looking at a 3-mile radius from the downtowns of 142 US cities, roughly 66,000 acres are consumed by highways — land representing an untapped development potential of more than half a trillion dollars…that fallow land equates to about $5.2 billion in foregone property tax revenue every year.”
It just makes me sick, man
"I'm testifying remotely because I couldn't get work off on such short notice. I didn't expect you to defund Amtrak and Safe Routes to School on a Tuesday morning with hours of notice." - Jordan Lewis in testimony at OR Leg just now
WHY IT MATTERS Under this proposal, not only would riders be stuck with only two (often sold out) round trips a day between Portland and Eugene for years to come, but Oregon would also be eliminating the local match needed for precious matching federal dollars. This program is a solid investment for our state: for every $20 we spent improving rails to move people and freight, we receive up to $80 from the federal government. Defunding investments in rail won't reallocate those federal dollars: they'll go toward rail projects in other states.
lots of reasons to dislike this, but one particularly concerning issue raised by @aortarail.org is that we’re cutting funds that we use to access federal matches for the amtrak cascades line, making the real lost funding even larger
Bike rack at Multnomah County Central Library, metal is cut through & bent apart.
Bike rack at Multnomah County Central Library, simple hex nut has been fully removed.
Portland’s central library got a $15 million renovation & I guess no one asked about the antiquated bike racks.
“It would also cut $17 million from Safe Routes to School, which funds infrastructure to make walking and biking to school safer for children”
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Barbur
Dear business owners,
Please, we're begging you: Stop with the artsy bike racks. We don't want them. They don't work. Thanks but not thanks. Just get those basic, city-issued, blue staple racks from PBOT and we'll love you and spend more money at your store. 🙏🏻
- Your bike riding customers.
Barnes & Noble is a good example of a retailer that should be lured to Downtown. They have been in the central city for decades and nationally they're expanding. www.koin.com/news/busines...
I’m not a skateboarder, but I’m very excited for this project, that will effectively extend and reinvigorate Waterfront Park
A very different from Portland, but equally successful, streetcar model: usa.streetsblog.org/2026/02/25/k...
Cruel Owner Chains Bike Outside In Freezing Weather
Cruel Owner Chains Bike Outside In Freezing Weather
Tough to classify anything I do as important, but I appreciate the sentiment
Waymo's insistence that that it uses remote "assistants" rather than drivers seems to be all about liability — not semantics.
Illuminating post from Junko Yoshida: junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/why-does-w...
Family Lets Cars Come Inside House During Snowstorm
Family Lets Cars Come Inside House During Snowstorm https://theonion.com/family-lets-cars-come-inside-house-during-snowstorm-1819577405/
Pass Inner Eastside for All, and building code reform plz
The message from the DOJ is unmistakable: Justice is no longer the objective.
Retribution is.
"The reason [the IBR] is stalled and is so expensive is because you're not transportation and for some you're claiming that you are. Every social justice group wants to be part of transportation and they just aren't." - OR House Rep Shelly Boshart Davis speaking on the IBR project on DOGE Podcast
