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I dunno how, but someone needs to come up with YIMBYism for commercial spaces.

bro they're making you slightly trapezoidal in the group chat right now

Congratulations to @senkhanhpham.bsky.social, who earnestly studied this boring but important policy issue, changed HER OWN mind on it, pushed through a year of painstaking negotiations after I personally was ready to leave it for dead, & finally came out with a green light from everyone. 🏆

top priority would probably be elevating the blue line in gresham

I agree and I think the more we try to completely isolate PCEF from politics the more likely it is that people will try to take power completely out of the hands of the committee

a bigger problem is that the closer you are to the center of its input data distribution the better the output quality is. literally makes it perform better on homework questions than novel engineering problems and also makes it hard to construct meaningful benchmarks

two comparisons for portland from the list above:
- vancouver BC, a similar sized region with much higher transit ridership. 44% FRR
- paris, with also uses a combination of payroll taxes and fares. FRR 29%

it’s a good one, I’m stealing it

it also doesn’t make sense in this context; a payroll tax is a way to fund transit in a progressive way without relying on high fares. if you can cover most of your budget with fares you don’t need an additional tax

a 50+% farebox recovery ratio is unusual for combined bus + rail systems and basically unheard of in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox...

it does look like it’s not scheduled for a hearing in time to pass this session

Oh hell yes

I get it, I miss soft pretzels and arcades too. but saving the dead mall isn't going to bring back 1994. Same energy keeps Memorial Coliseum as an aging husk instead of the AAA baseball stadium for the Beavers in 2010. We can be more audacious than a dead mall.

blog.ronbronson.com/you-dont-alw...

of all the ugly things to save, I cannot understand all this caping for a dead mall

when I say yimbyism is a big tent I’m talking about this guy specifically

yep! feel free to DM me

When Border Patrol shot two immigrants in Portland, they claimed they had ties to gangs. The Guardian later wrote a story exposing those claims as a smear campaign, but the narrative was regurgitated by city leadership that took DHS at their word.

Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.

woman goes to doctor. says she's depressed. says life seems harsh and cruel. says she feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. doc says, "treatment is simple. go check out pony pony huckabuck on bluesky. her kids are so cute”. woman bursts into tears

I’ve heard that PBOT can do projects much cheaper in house but don’t have enough staff for that, but I’m not sure that info is published anywhere. it should probably be a bigger part of the transpo funding conversion in portland

‘Budget pothole’: Oregon’s transportation funding challenge comes into clearer focus Lawmakers are looking at freezing open positions and pulling money from certain programs as they work to avoid deep layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Oregon lawmakers on the hunt for money to balance the state’s transportation budget offered a look Tuesday at the difficult math problem before them. Lawmakers are looking at freezing open positions and pulling money from certain programs as they work to avoid deep layoffs at ODOT.

Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_ 11/23/21 But where do *you*, a person in a doctorate program who studies these systems, think that $50 billion *could* come from Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett That's the wrong question and it valorizes white institutions and white ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways.

whenever you get people on the left saying that environmental review timelines and zoning codes don't matter and what's actually important are abstract debates about deregulation this is all I can think of

I'm interested to hear more about this subject. I think there aren't a lot of advocates in pdx with enough transportation project management experience to comment intelligently about this stuff

yeah what we’ve been talking about in DSA is that we should codify engineering directives around daylighting and bike lane hardening during maintenance, and then give PBOT targets for ROW vacations and downgrading street classifications

that’s right: portland’s TUF should include discounts for car free households, transit riders, and low income households, just like TUFs in other cities in the portland metro

I should just start sending people to this list when they ask who they should follow on bluesky

Hello Bluesky!

What if you held your "national media event" unveiling new Cascades trains in the Pacific Northwest, where the trains will run!

green building material industry policy 🙌

happy birthday!

will say also: I was in the trenches with you telling people to vote for harris in 2024 because she’d be better on palestine than trump. I felt like the campaign never recognized this was a weakness and never tried to back up supporters who were making that case. I still don’t understand why!