Allan

losers of this project are people who live on Willamette and care about having on-street parking. Most have driveways & side streets are close by

winners: are basically anyone who rides a bike on this corridor

equity lens: maybe this money could have been spent on something else?

@familyride.bsky.social is a mensch - you've never met a better schlepper or more compassionate, inclusive, ethical champion for people walking, biking, rolling, and using transit.

Congrats, Madi!

Just off a call w Jeffrey Tumlin, who was the Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 2019-2024... when robotaxis came to town.

He says Oregon is at risk of copying CA's failure by letting Waymo come in w/o local regulations.

HB 4085 is really bad folks!!

They know they can’t win unless they take away our voting rights. And they are trying to do it. That’s how you know they’re the bad guys:

wild to think the physical buildings of many of America’s future concentration camps already exist

Councilor Zimmerman just made a PBOT employee cry in a city hall meeting. Very normal and reasonable temperament 👍

A correct answer is to build it on top of existing highway lanes.

That way you can take away car space at the same time which will help drive ridership

And you get extra miles

Those continuous sidewalks always remind me of something my son asked once while riding his balance bike on the side walk. Why does the sidewalk always end, but the road goes on and on. When those that design out cities say they prioritize pedestrians but their designs say something else.

Social media does not give teens real community; it prevents them from spending time with real people.

New randomized controlled trial shows young adults get LESS lonely when they reduce, even though their friends are not reducing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Minivans Make a Comeback - Headlight.news After years of being ignored by most buyers, minivans posted a big jump in demand in 2025. What's behind that surge - and will it continue?

Minivan sales jumped 20% in 2025.

Excellent news for families, pedestrians, and everyone who loathes oversized SUVs and pickups.

Memorial Coliseum Site, 1957 This aerial photograph shows a partially cleared site for the construction of the Memorial Coliseum. Over 400 homes in the heart of historic Central Albina were razed by the City of Portland to mak…

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Portland Winter Light Festival 🔥

Becky’s whole thread is worth a read

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

They are very aware that a Seattle player is wearing #67

The dream has died

6-0 could be a good setup for 6-7

A tweet from @ futurevictim_ that reads "the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard"

Never Forget

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Minneapolis tells residents to stop building anti-ICE barricades, but they keep popping up Minneapolis officials are urging residents not to block traffic as neighbors build makeshift checkpoints to slow and track federal immigration agents.

This is also the way to protect people from cars.

Don't Save Lloyd Lloyd Center's time has passed. Support the redevelopment that will transform 29 acres of crumbling parking lots into a thriving, walkable neighborhood with 5,000 new homes.

dontsavelloyd.com

Article by James Stout with verbatim the text of the above post, dated in 2021

Hey Denise, shouldn’t you be citing your sources?

Is #pdxwlf the best event of the year? #Portland

After HRC and Kamala Harris, I am starting to get a real sense that a lot of people love to do the "Well. She's ok. I guess" thing with women. No elected official is perfect, but some people seem to really dwell on the 'not perfect' part with accomplished women

City Boosters Can't Ignore the Quality of City Services This is a big missing piece to rebuilding the urban middle class.

I love @schmangee.bsky.social 's honesty & perspective here. the way she describes how people wanting to trust the system get let down and eventually give up.

good governance matters

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It’s all one big grift

This is my first time thinking of the monument as having a klan hood and I grew up a 10-minute drive from it

Today (a bit more than every other day) I'm thinking about Don and his family.

RIP Don, you're missed and we're kicking ass in your name.

Haha

Tonight at 6, PNW will be joined by planners from BPS working on updates to zoning in the central city.

If you believe that an arbitrary; paint-by-color ass patchwork of height limits is dumb, then come participate in the Q&A they'll be giving.