Xavier D. Stickler

truly exceptional timing for the oregon legislature to abandon the effort to properly fund transit.

can't afford the price of gas? want to drive less? too bad, we're cutting transit service statewide! #orleg

I can start posting problematically if you need something to entertain you.

I bet I could do a convincing bit on the dangers of public housing. I know the script well enough.

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

ODOT wasn't "saddled with debt" by an act of God or nature - it "saddled itself" with debt through decades of deceitful, incompetent management, flawed planning, intentionally opaque finance and a passive, rubber stamp commission - and a legislature and Governors who kept rewarding poor performance. The so-called "crisis" is entirely self-created. - David Bragdon

When an OG cooks the highway builders in the LinkedIn comments 🥰

For the cost of the Moda Center bill they could give every Portland resident $920.

The biggest drawback of driverless cars Driverless cars could save thousands of lives. They might also break our cities.

"AVs almost by definition lower the friction and costs associated with driving ... And we already know, from the last century-plus of experience in the US, what happens when we make driving easier: We will get more of it. And more concrete and asphalt infrastructure to accommodate it."

Another win for the political theory that "they're all just 12 years old on the inside."

No, they should channel their anger into getting challengers lined up to primary incumbents who refuse to fight like our futures aren’t on the line.

advocates mad at me for defunding sidewalks in front of schools so we can spend that money on Literally Nothing should take it up with my republican colleagues, who I love and cherish and look forward to working with next year. my name is kate lieber and I approve this message

Did I miss the memo on musical chairs?

Las Vegas. They said nothing. No one mentioned it. I’m pretty sure I was the only one who saw it.

Twas a tough one.

You can’t even engage with these people superficially. They’re too far gone.

It won’t here in a minute…

The home “home sweet home” rug with South America isn’t even a dog whistle. It’s a bark.

We made it to the destination a-okay. I'm confused as to how it got Like That.

I actually don't know haha

Alaska, surprisingly

Is this good

We've been down this road before. We know how it ends. It doesn't have to be this way. Say no to war with Iran.

The US military achieving direct combat objectives versus the US military doing seeming anything else

It’s midnight:07 pm Saturday, and this line 9 is completely full. Don’t ever tell me no one rides transit.

Let’s say we found a way to shut it down—there isn’t one, but let’s say there was…

That doesn’t abolish ICE. It doesn’t go away just because you can’t see it anymore. They would still find a way to terrorize people.

Groovy Goose

Not if Travis Nelson gets his way

A very sobering realization I've slowly been coming to is that we are much, much closer to global elites pushing for a literal genocide of the working class/global south than we are to them accepting even a milquetoast social democracy in the west.

I believe the former will happen in my lifetime.

Somehow I ended up on the Partnership for Progress mailing list. I thought I would stay subscribed so I could stay informed on what they’re up to.

I had to unsubscribe because the AI sloppery pissed me off too much. This doesn’t even scratch the surface of how bad it is.

Loretta Smith & Wesson