Tony Jordan

Metro’s top elected official missed a third of council meetings — and may leave before her term ends — OregonLive.com Two days after Metro announced Council President Lynn Peterson may step down before the end of her second term to become Lake Oswego’s interim city manager, Peterson was not at Metro’s regular Thursda...

This is pathetic and we deserve better.

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This is pretty bad, but if we didn’t have this someone might had to park a block away from their destination sometimes.

Even worse, we practically begged for it.

I know gas prices are gonna raise my cost of living, but not being car dependent is great and everyone should support policies and efforts to make it a universal option for everyone in a city or town.

Just a reminder that we don’t need to change any federal laws to stick with standard time. Your state legislator could restore sanity tomorrow.

We’re all dropping 8-20 an hour on parking whether we park or not.

People are parking because they’re going somewhere. For the small fraction really can’t use an app or a phone, then go to the business or person they are visiting, give them the money, and have them pay.

Ideally someone installs one or two apps and they work nearly everywhere so there’s no installing new apps and accounts to park.

For cash payments, I don’t know of anyone does this, but I think a program for local biz to take cash and feed the “meter” for a patron is the way.

For the tech, I am sold on “open market” policy. Let people choose their own app. There’s major consolidation happening anyway so the city shouldn’t spend time on RFP to pick a company that just gets swallowed up. (We hosted a webinar on this topic).

The thing missing from most city paid parking plans is VALUE. No one wants to pay for parking! It’s true. No one wants to pay for anything!

If you pay for a meter or parking space that you had to circle the block forever to get, what was the value?

Go big or go home on this.

My first login (CSFR72D) was for prodigy.

I’ve never felt more seen.

We are loving this show.

Foreman electrician in a steel mill and chemical engineer in a coke (carbon) plant. Those grandpas died when I was young and my step-grandpas were a butcher and an insurance salesman (I think).

Gemini told him there’s no gas leak. Everything is fine.

This is bad for freeways, right?

Hear me out — single SLIDE buildings.

Not at all.

brb. setting up content filter rules so that my own organization's mailing lists and emails between staff don't go into gmail spam...

Just saying he looks healthier on death's doorstep than he does today 🤞

Damn, he looks relatively good there.

Price EVERY car trip.

That’s why I can’t have a TED Talk. There’s not enough to say (and also nearly all the gatekeepers have car brain).

Yes. Its honestly insane to focus so much on potential MODELED vmt and not spend every waking breath fighting to price EVERY CAR TRIP.

Just another reason to hate cars.

How Ottawa Abolished Its Parking Mandates - Parking Reform Network Parking reform in a big city is rarely a single dramatic moment; it’s a long campaign fought on multiple fronts. Ottawa just proved that it’s worth the fight.

A pretty good summary here about Ottawa City Council's recent approval of the new zoning by-law. "How Ottawa Abolished Its Parking Mandates"
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Exactly.

Well some of it anyway. Please don’t build the parking garage.

Should we also raid and shutdown Wunderland?

I think if rocks or bottles are falling from the sky we have bigger fish to fry.

On the topic of annoying things that should be abolished/fixed, did you know city code currently allows Tesla to install as many super charger stations as it wants in any existing parking lot and no one can stop them?