Rob Galanakis

What a great slogan!

They're the only one I saw who spent almost the entire paragraph saying actually they don't make/spend that much money. It's comical.

Oregon legislators who prioritized highway expansions and stadium rehab money while gutting mass transit and safe routes money sure look like stooges in the middle of a huge gas crisis.

The politics on T&I seemed very hard with Clark as VP. TKL probably got the D3 nod because she's hung her hat on it more fully. Angelita is just good at everything.

You folks gotta read Dawn of Everything. Similar to Debt in how it makes sense of what existing theories do a terrible job trying to explain.

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I don't know a ton of lines but this one was unmistakeable.

That's a great point too.

What is causing this home price surge in the la grande region?

Also I want to clarify that downtown doesn't suck up money, it is a massive revenue generator that sees much less spending than its revenue produced.

Another thought experiment is to see what type of network the burbs could support without federal spending. Their roads would stink! Way worse than Portland. But we have more diverse needs than highways, because we're an actual city, not a highway with houses.

funding came from county or city taxes. But while we have large capital projects that feds/state pay for, we just have far more needs because of our network. It's not really a management or revenue problem, it's a cost/liability problem.

Ie, if there is a $300m project on OR 217, that covers a lot of the traveled surface in the suburbs. But Portlands network is way more vast and utilized and there is no $300m project that covers a similar set of vmt. That is doubly so since almost none of that state highway project

Portland has 4k lane miles of streets and because it's a city, not a suburb, there is stuff on much of those miles. Compare to suburbs, where there is a concentration of traffic on highways which are funded federally and by the state.

The Residential Infill Project took 6 years to get through the process. www.sightline.org/2021/08/06/t...

We're now almost 2 years since the Inner Eastside Area Planning Project to the Housing Production strategy. I don't know if BPS has yet realized the new council doesn't want to wait another 4.

Ah shit I was about to bike to pick up my daughter at school and it started raining, I guess I need to drive a 4000lb tank less than a mile to pick her up. Blast!

Biketown is very expensive to fully subsidize but a couple free vouchers could be done...

Yes! Biketown is what got me on a bike for the first time in 12 years- actually it was just a straightforward economic decision, buses weren't running and a Lyft was $50. Tried a biketown bike at 2am in July and was hooked.

Just raise the millionaire taxes to reduce inequality, and spend all we need to spend to fund society but limit inflation. Deals like this are too fragile and clever to actually pass or sustain.

Fair enough

I don't agree, this is just an evil job for a bad person. Bullshit jobs are meaningless jobs done by well meaning people. Give them some credit, they're way better than hoan.

pay for programs, how do you pay when taxes dry up as inequality falls?

It's also amazing that no other modern society works this way. It's such a stupid idea. 1) taxes don't fund services (see MMT). 2) it's impressive to come up with an equality improving scheme that will hurt social cohesion but here we are, 3) if you do depend on the fiction that taxes

You can buy a good Trek brand new for like $800 I think, what motorcycle costs that? Even decent ebikes have come way, way down in price. And used bikes are a few hundred, and will last forever. Maintenance costs are negligible. How is this comparable to motorcycles in price?

Got it. I live in a neighbourhood with rather elderly people and I'm often having to gently take them through the explanation of why we all can't expect to live on a half acre in the middle of a city, so that is how I saw it. Appreciate the response.

My first op-ed!

I think "only leave that neighborhood if you want to" would work, but it seems like it's important to get people into right sized housing, otherwise growth will continue to be inequitable.

There are a lot of people aging in 2500 sq ft homes on large lots that they pay massively underpriced taxes on. There are very few empty lots in many neighborhoods. How do we increase mobility with so much of the city stuck with SFH?

In a totally predictable turn of the circle of life, my kids also never met their paternal grandfather, who died in the same village (but instead of a farmer with lung cancer like his dad, he had lost his mind and was a ward of the church).

My maternal grandfather was a dentist, my parental grandfather was a Greek farmer in a small village in Crete who died while I was young (I don't think I met him).

I can second and confirm all of this. They also have great programming for little kids, red yarn music each week I think and tons more.