Unspeakably evil
Only reason I am an American is because my Zeide did translation work for the US Army, in the immediate aftermath of WW2, which he spent in various concentration camps
Turning our backs on the brave Afghans who helped us is morally vacant, and a stain on our national character
Bonus round:
Run an ebike rebate program for low income families
Offer to pay for low water landscaping conversions
Encourage/require more alley loading homes
Allow lot splits for attached housing
Fund any mandates for housing affordability
Ban personal fireworks (dogs and vets will thank you)
Things Bend has done/is doing I think every city should do, urbanist edition:
Upzone to quadplexes (at least) everywhere
Plan key biking and walking routes and build them out
Get rid of parking mandates
Price the curb wherever data says it makes sense
Work harder on transit (we're gonna!)
Me, having a guest over: "Watch, it boils instantly!"
Me, 2 minutes later: "Ok, ok, well 2 minutes used to feel instantaneous."
😂
“Can you hear me now? Good.”
Watch for the green flash!
He also has such a great social media team!
Remember when Obama's speech deals were headline news stories?
Supreme Court justices doing whatever they want, predicting rulings months before arguments or briefs have been filed, reveals the flimsy basis of the Roberts Court legitimacy.
Which is maybe what we knew all along: this is more about politics than calling balls and strikes. Ask McConnell.
This was the one that caught my eye as well recently... 👎
A good transit operator principle is: “Do not pursue revenue that diminishes the experience of transit riders.”
Especially not for the benefit of non-transit riders.
Definitely test ride if you can. I like the Bosch line torque sensors but they all feel different. Throttle is great for heavy cargo loads but in “turbo” mode I can get across an intersection comfortably with just pedal assist.
Pieds-a-terre tax, eh? Hmmm…
I see what you did there lol
CFEC rules do require lots more trees in surface parking lots though.
I also want to make sure we pay attention to pedestrian safety designs - some lots are better than others!
Oregon looked at requiring this and backed away from it because the embodied carbon in the required substructure outweighed the carbon benefit.
great point. If you have to explain your answer to someone's question, it's not really a good answer!
But if the focus is *motor vehicle* traffic, then I think traffic diverter works. Thoughts?
A residential street in Bend, OR with modal filters/traffic diverters that say "LEFT TURN ONLY" with orange arrows and some temporary fluorescent green traffic cones. An old 1970s pickup truck is visible on the left. Trees and a fence line make up the background. A 20 mph speed limit sign is visible.
Should this be called a "modal filter" or a "traffic diverter"?
Modal filter is more accurate, but the idea is harder to convey (nobody knows what a "mode" is).
Traffic diverters seem overly focused on drivers - it's not a diverter if you're walking, wheeling, or biking!
Is the intention for drivers to patiently queue behind while boarding? Just trying to anticipate local design conversations. This is what a positive hierarchy of transportation might look like.
Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").
Surveys show people believe foreign aid to be 25 - 31% of our federal budget and that the U.S. should cut foreign aid. When informed the actual amount is around 1%, support for cutting aid drops.
This is like a really crazy version of that.
I still remember the songs from the soundtrack, too
A screenshot of a map of US 97 in Deschutes and Jefferson Counties. Red dots show where fatal crashes occurred. Almost the entire highway is covered in red dots.
The US 97 corridor between Madras and Bend ranks in the top 5% of dangerous road segments in Oregon. From 2018 - 2023, 66 people died in crashes on US 97 in Deschutes and Jefferson Counties.
14 of them were killed in an urban area (Madras, Redmond, Bend). Half of those were pedestrians.
A good overview of options and challenges around how a city can remedy grocery deserts.
An open question is whether it's permitting and opening vs. operating costs (incl. rent subsidy) that offer the best reform opportunities. @stephenjacobsmith.com seems to think it's the former.
I’m so sorry to hear this, Jennifer!
a screenshot of a map of bend with "111 contributions so far" highlighted at the top. There are brown and teal pins dropped across the area of the map.
Where are you seeing safety issues? 111 pins have been dropped so far. Now you can also like previously posted comments.
Help the Bend MPO update our transportation safety action plan!
zanassoc.mysocialpinpoint.com/bend-transpo...
It's been fixed. "Like" away!
Creative proposal!
