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Listening to Bruce Harrell on the campaign trail, you'd never know that traffic fatalities in Seattle have actually increased during his term as whole and that last year was the deadliest year on city roads in decades.

3 days left to demand tighter regulation of the oil storage facility in northwest Portland

i have a handful of theories as to why, but none of them fully explain why we've managed to get all on the same page and fully radicalized on how expensive housing has become but the closest anyone gets to noticing transportation is also expensive is "gas prices are too damn high"

It is almost like Hanoi, a city with over 8 million residents, needs a true city spanning metro system. Not two disconnected metro lines.

Embrace cà phê urbanism.

Did my grad school thesis on the Lloyd District in Portland in 2013, the gaping non-place in the middle of miles of walkable/bikeable places that make up PDX.

Definitely went with the "it's not rocket science" approach re: the urbanism. Only "flair" was embracing Portland's park block precedent...

Behind closed doors, real estate leaders tell governor, mayor how to revive Portland housing construction During a 2 1/2-hour meeting, real estate leaders aired concerns about high taxes and downtown safety and suggested extending downtown tax breaks.

Private developers get ANOTHER private audience with Kotek and Wilson to talk about how they would like to make money.

No mention of social housing in this article of course.

Metro reinstates two LA bus drivers who vowed to protect riders from ICE An LA County Supervisor and thousands of residents spoke out in support of the bus operators, who now have a 60-day unpaid suspension from their jobs.

These victories matter more than ever.

“Metro reinstates two LA bus drivers who vowed to protect riders from ICE
An LA County Supervisor and thousands of residents spoke out in support of the bus operators, who now have a 60-day unpaid suspension from their jobs”

Los Angeles' A Line light rail has been extended today further to the east, with the extension running from Azusa to Pomona, with stops in Glendora, San Dimas, & La Verne.

The A line, from Long Beach to Pomona, is 57.6 miles long, the longest light rail line in the world, with a 2h11 trip time.

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I like Vietnam ♡

Subscribers asked for it, here are some of my thoughts on an article about the CRH system by an 85 year old Chinese economic geographer, 陆大道. I'll be blunt, people who cite 陆大道's article at face value against the concept of HSR don't know anything about transport planning.

SDOT’s goal is to shift driving trips to transit. Why do their traffic studies not consider that people might consider taking the bus?

also possibly the most ambitious mass displacement / housing destruction event in American history - just impossible to wrap your brain around the scale of decades of consequences of the federal government paying cities to destroy so many homes of so many Black and brown communities

iMBC: Chuu at ICN airport headed to Bangkok to film a web variety

Street View: The Band-Aid Bill The Oregon House of Representatives managed to squeak through the latest version of a long-awaited transportation funding package earlier this week. But nobody’s popping champagne yet—and they probabl...

belatedly, @taylorgriggs.bsky.social knocked this one out of the park.

pitch perfect overview of the absolute clusterfuck that is the politics around the legislature's transportation package, which still hasn't been passed, and leaves so much more work ahead
www.portlandmercury.com/street-view/...

photo of a blue and white WES train

photo of a green and white SMART train stopped at a station

my definition of a real city is if the metro area has an obscure DMU service that the average resident doesn’t know exists

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🎀Wrapping up as a princess🎀

1 (message on the box lunch gift from fans: "I'm ARTMS Choerry, who was an heiress in a past life"

MAX wikipedia info box screenshot showing the system began operation on september 5th, 1986

happy 39th birthday to the metropolitan area express, here’s to many more decades of keeping the portland metro moving 🥳

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Maximum job satisfaction👻

Public records show city traffic engineer resisted attempts to remove diverters "We cannot remove these planters — they are addressing bike crashes that were occurring at this location."

Advocacy group BikeLoud PDX has learned new information that shows much more concern from PBOT than city administrators initially shared about a plan to remove diverters on a neighborhood greenway

bikeportland.org/2025/09/02/c...

endlessly glad to have senator pham fighting for transit riders and a good transportation system in the legislature; endlessly frustrated that it feels like she’s doing it alone

transit is climate action, transit is disability justice, transit is economic development, transit is family-wage jobs, transit unlocks access to education and health care and every other social service the state provides. what good's a clinic if the folks who need it the most can't reach it?

Spent a lot of time observing Denny this week. If people willingly endure 30 minutes of delay (as the model suggests) when there are so many other travel options, don’t they just have themselves to blame? Also, Seattle congestion pricing when

In the bottom photo, the diagonal stripe of the train's livery is visible. This diagonal stripe was present only on Type 2 LRVs, and not Type 1s, likely to highlight/accommodate for their lower access doors. This diagonal stripe was a key inspiration for the dress design, and can be seen in both the collar, and the small "mini-dress" that sits atop the main dress.

Trimet's light rail system, called MAX, is short for Metropolitan Area eXpress. MAE sounds lame.

Remember to do your part in reducing automotive emissions and congestion by taking transit when you can!

The collar was my favorite part of this outfit. I used a new technique to create the stripes.

View of three towers of Sen̓áḵw (Phase One) from the treed lot in front of Parkview Towers, also on former Kits 6 Reserve land.

Three towers of Sen̓áḵw (phase 1) rising above Kits 6 Reserve as reclaimed by the Squamish Nation near downtown Vancouver. senakw.com/place

Here emerging from trees on the Parkview Tower lot at the foot of the Burrard Bridge nearby (also formerly part of Kits 6). 1/

8/25/2025 - LC 2 Special Session Testimony Guide ACTION ALERT: Testify NEUTRAL on LC 2, Special Session Transportation Package PUBLIC HEARING: MON, 8/25 AT 3PM DEADLINE TO SUBMIT TESTIMONY: WEDS, 8/27 AT 3PM The Oregon Legislature is coming…

SPECIAL SESSION UPDATE: There's another chance to be heard on safe streets and multimodal transportation funding this year at 🗣️ www.TheStreetTrust.org/Testify.

The Oregon Legislature has released the details of a bare bones transportation package, LC 2, and a public hearing has been scheduled.

trimet doesn’t turn away people traveling to cooling shelters during a heatwave because public transit has an obligation to serve all users that isn’t shared by any other part of our transportation system. important to remember when you hear about the existential threats facing transit today

Portland is facing dire transit service cuts and we're being told our 30 year old indoor sports arena is out of date and taxpayers must fix it.

Transit uses obsolete infrastructure every day. It would be nice to update the rail system so it can run at normal speeds on hot days, for example.

Here you go

Big projects, bigger problems: Oregon bridge, highway efforts face delays and steep costs As Oregon lawmakers prepare to return for a special session focused on transportation, the Rose Quarter and other high-profile projects are on the back burner.

The mega-project era ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.