Blue Dem governors united in supporting climate change acceleration.
Who is primarying her?
Congratulations @pbotinfo.bsky.social for completely killing the activity on NW 13th Ave 10/10 you should all be proud
Thinking about what an huge tourist draw Portland's downtown waterfront would be today if it hadn't been torn down, replaced with a freeway, which was then replaced with a park that is mostly a giant grass field
We don’t dismiss plane crashes as the “cost of living.” We act. Vision Zero asks us to do the same on our streets: to design and manage them so that when mistakes happen, they don’t lead to death.
The freedom to move safely through our communities should not be a gamble.
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this article praises a car free street as feeling “like a neighborhood in portland”. that’s a reputation we should be building on, not tearing down!
In the good times, SDC revenue funds a lot of good projects.
We're not in the good times, and SDC revenue is near zero. A temporary waiver that could make some marginal projects viable is exactly what we need to do right now.
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For all the talk you hear from politicians about wanting to address the rising cost of living, somehow there never seems to be any meaningful reckoning with how much money most Americans are essentially forced to spend on car payments, gas, insurance, maintenance just to participate in society
"We must place as many people as we can near the source of pollution" says planner who believes deeply in zoning - the purpose of which was supposedly to separate people from sources of pollution
build the max tunnel 🤞
Car manufacturers want to keep us Car Dependent for their profit. We can and should remove combustion engines from our transportation system regardless, but Public Investment should stop subsidizing Private Personal Vehicles. Take the money going to PPV infrastructure and put it in Public Transit
Decades ago ODOT wanted to destroy inner SE Portland to give suburbanites a highway.
Today ODOT wants to widen their highway in North Portland for the sole benefit of Clark County suburbanites.
ODOT does not care about Portlanders and never has.
Periodic reminder that yes, we really do need to build more housing and no, there isn't some secret cache of empty apartments we can expropriate to get out of building more housing. resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/vacancies-...
Back from sickness (knock on wood, still coughing a bit) and back in the Shed, waiting to see my new city council at their first ever meeting! Can't wait to see who is voted VP and Pres of the council.
NMF has *3* live legal challenges against ODOT and the freeway industrial complex - we get our first day in court this January.
Lawyers ain't cheap. Our all-volunteer campaign needs your help to pay the bills to hold ODOT accountable.
Donations up to $15k are matched!
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We can save the carbon equivalent of taking 10 million cars off the road if we simply take 10 million cars off the road.
Think public transit “doesn’t work” in your city or suburb? If that’s true, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion— it’s because of choices made. Land-use, funding, infrastructure & operational decisions. If u do fundamentals like frequency wrong, it fails.
Make good choices.
(@humantransit.bsky.social)
The New York Times is giving a murder their “both-sides” treatment. What the hell is the matter with you?!? Someone kills a person with their car, and your reaction is to be like, “Some people think murder is bad, but others don’t like bike lanes, so 🤷♂️.”
UBI saves a ton of public money, but its lack of cruelty sends certain people into a rage, so it’s hard to put into practice.
For almost 50 years, Downtown Portland has had a maximum allowed building height of 460' or less.
The Portland City Council just voted 5-0 to give architects and developers the ability to ask to go taller during the design review process.
Starting next year, there's no fixed height limit.
