Takes a lot longer today 🤨

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We also need to find a way to get the multiuse path to library square. IBR had yet to show any design that does that! All designs to date terminate at a ridiculous spiral at the waterfront

Vancouver City Council could vote to oppose shorter I-5 light rail route Planned light rail stops were reduced from two to one, with light rail terminating at the Vancouver waterfront.

Years ago Vancouver WA didn’t want light rail from Portland. Now they’re (understandably) upset the new plan has only station instead of two www.opb.org/article/2026...

Things bike helmets will protect you from:

-Head injuries from a slow speed fall
-Light rain
-Being blamed for not wearing a helmet if you get hit by someone driving 5,000 lbs of metal and glass

Things bike helmets won't protect you from:

-Everything else

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We need automatic parking citations in PDX!

Get the truck that fits the streets, not make the streets fit the truck

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every day, we stand on the shoulders of the people who came before us. One of the reasons Portland is such a livable city is because of visionaries like Roger Shiels, who passed away last month. His lasting impact can be felt across the city:

ODOT is guilty of every single one of these

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The Broadway Bridge has been closed since October while crews replaced the bridge deck and installed new streetcar tracks.

Read more at www.oregonlive.com/commuting/20...

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

Three takeaways from @nytimes.com "inside the room" account.

1) Previous US admins mostly resisted being conned by Netanyahu. Trump was a complete sucker.

2) Vance and, to lesser degree, Marco playing "we always knew this was bad idea" card.

3) Trump is an idiot.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Impeach Trump.

Roger Shiels, planner of the Portland Transit Mall and Pioneer Courthouse Square, dies at 91 Roger Shiels led complex civic projects with a patient and low-key approach that earned him deep respect from design commissioners and city leaders.

We lost a civic treasure… www.oregonlive.com/news/2026/04...

Two people standing near a bike. One with a blue shirt is Kiel Johnson, founder of Bike Valet.

Rows of bikes parked in racks at Go By Bike bike valet under Portland Aerial Tram. A Portland Streetcar is rolling by

Kiel Johnson in a blue polo shirt standing in background with bikes parked at his bike valet in the foreground.

When you see Kiel Johnson from @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social at Bike Happy Hour tonight (he's hosting!), say congratulations. Today (4/1/26) is 14th anniversary of his Go By Bike bike valet under the Aerial Tram, which he opened on this day in 2012.

(Photos from 4/23/2012)

green with envy with all of you in Seattle celebrating the new transit line opening today.

Reminder that Portland hasn’t added new high capacity transit since 2015, has no plans to do so in the future, is facing massive service cuts and plans to spend billions doubling the width of I-5

Graphic with photo of Oslo pedestrian streets filled with people. Text says “fewer cars equal more business“ with the line at the bottom saying “every so often less is more.” Ad poster created by the Urban Truth Collective.

It’s the people that spend money. Not the cars. #UrbanTruth

City Club of Portland petitions governor to reclaim Ross Island The City Club of Portland released a report petitioning the governor’s office to help in the reclamation of Ross Island in Portland’s Willamette River.

Some nice TV coverage of the City Club report on Ross Island:
www.kptv.com/2026/03/27/c...

https://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/legislation/nepa/memo_additional-flex.aspx

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-23/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-771/section-771.117

Ever wonder how DOTs can add highway lanes without going through the onerous environmental review process under NEPA?

So long as the agency already owns the right of way it's expanding into, the widening is likely exempt. There's a USDOT memo speaking to this specific categorical exception.

It was my privilege to serve as a Research Advisor to this extremely hardworking and thoughtful Research Committee!

The City Club Ross Island report is complete (pdxcityclub.org/wp-content/u...) and will be presented to the membership on April 9th for approval: pdxcityclub.org/event/ross-i...

You’re welcome to borrow mine for a test run😉

I have both a flatbed trailer and a Burley Travoy. I use the Travoy much more often. Versatile and very easy to attach/detach.

Your First EV Could Be A Cargo E-Bike | Viktor Köves EVs are here, but I want to show you that your first EV could just be a cargo e-bike that can replace most car trips, and save you a boat-load of money!

Gas is up to almost $5 in parts of Chicago, and it's going to get worse. So now is a good time to start looking into a way of carrying people and things that's dramatically cheaper - a cargo ebike!

My fuel cost for 2 years was around $6, with only $29 a month total running cost

We need to get decision makers to agree that we're stopping after SR-14 and get the other elements redesigned to work independently of further freeway expansions. This is especially true around Marine Drive and Hayden Island.

Could you stop after doing SR-14? Yes. Will they? I don't think the stakeholders will stop their advocacy. Also, yesterday's Metro presentation was pretty blunt that LRT doesn't get to Evergreen until the freeway gets to Evergreen. They are currently designed as one structure.

No change in height. Ultimate project scope and design has not changed. They’ve just introduced phasing.

Opinion: IBR team hasn't 'right-sized' the project, they've just hidden full commitment Economist Joe Cortright argues that bridge officials are pulling wool over our eyes.

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