A gravel bike in front of a wall mural "Landfill rescue unit" shows different candies that look sad.
Wall mural and fence mural of a queen and a fury creature on a skateboard
It's #MuralMonday
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📍 SE 26th and Belmont
Portland, OR.
We will continue to make two-dimensional maps. Because your mind can't handle the truth.
I'm doing a talk at this event Thursday night! Tickets are just $8 and on sale at Clinton Street Theater here:
cstpdx.com/event/oregon...
It is a quick-presentation format - I'm giving one presentation and helping organize the event.
It will be great to see some transportation nerds there!
I used a bike rack this weekend that exists because I complained about it not existing.
You can make things better, even just a little.
Never doubt the power of skillfully complaining. It can change the world.
"The models are wrong, but more importantly, the incentives surrounding them are misaligned. We have built a funding structure that rewards certainty over humility, scale over productivity and expansion over durability."
clmarohn.substack.com/p/the-inflat...
in which ODOT is called out for intentionally using known incorrect traffic modelling numbers because it helps them make the case for moving forward on a project
And that many other highway departments across the country do the same to get $$$ from the feds
Thursday’s executive order from Gov. Tina Kotek left school districts confused about how the sweeping prohibition on cutting instructional time would work, as the end of the school year approaches and they prepare to finalize budgets for the upcoming year. Here’s what we know right now.
When you believe the status quo is incredibly unfair, you work harder to pass legislation than if you think we just need some minor tweaks.
Keep pushing
Protected bike lane on N Williams when?
My wife was hit by a car last summer (left hook) and really doesn't ride as much after. Paint just wasn't getting it done
gnarled mossy exposed tree roots and trunk
burgundy brown ridged clam against sand
raft on tires with grass growing in corner that makes much more sense than the insta raft in Alien Earth fer chrissakes
black with white freckle spotting heeler hybrid with red harness and sweet sharp face sitting in sand, named Selkie
Around Kelly Point Park with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social this afternoon.
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.
www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
cityobservatory.org/city-of-indu...
love the title, love the article. Portland punching above its weight in an indicator that should lead to future success
This is interesting. I'm curious what sort of verification there would be of whether the houses are actually being used or not
Graphic with “suburban sprawl” at the top and four checked boxes that say “bankrupting public costs, skyrocketing, household costs, paralyzing car dependency, and irreversible harm to the future.” The bottom line says “the cost is far too high.” Via the URBAN TRUTH COLLECTIVE
They want us to think that Suburban Sprawl is cheap. But the truth is, the costs are FAR too high. #UrbanTruth
Tomorrow's engineers aren't learning about induced demand.
"3 [of 7] textbooks omitted the idea entirely, whereas the others offered only partial coverage."
"The engineering textbooks reviewed here leave students unprepared to understand induced travel."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Not sure I agree with the means but the ends are good
Gov. Tina Kotek signs executive order to protect student instructional time in Oregon share.google/Mfl7hBjeNZhb...
The Lloyd Center’s legacy officially has an end date.
Lloyd Center’s owners announced Thursday that Aug. 8 will be the last day to visit the mall.
theoregonian.visitlink.me/-QoHKO
📸: Allison Barr
the one part of IRA that Trump didn’t repeal!
"Cities Are Generally Good at Handling the Very Small and the Very Large ... Inside That Gap, Failure Doesn’t Look Like Neglect. It Looks Like Fragmentation.
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www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026...
UNANIMOUSLY?? In THIS economy??
That is a massive credit to P:NW for touching base with dozens and dozens and dozens of electeds, groups, and community members. A master class in coalescing support around a great idea that was well articulated.
I voted no today on an ordinance that authorizes $525 million in water bonds. This issuance is part of a broader debt management strategy to finance the water filtration plant. I’d like to share my reason for that no vote.
I wanted to tweet about this but I had too much on my plate today. This is one of those things everyone will care about once it’s too late.
To pay for that, rates will need a sustained increase on the order of 9.8% at Current Service Levels through 2031. There may be opportunity to cut that down to the mid 8% zone. In any case the cumulative impact is a doubling of the water bill inside of a decade.
Blazers! They’re back.
"Apparently, IBR officials don’t intend to tell us how much money tolls will produce, or what toll levels will be–until after we make an irrevocable commitment to move forward with the $15 billion project."
- @cityobservatory.bsky.social's Joe Cortright on the latest IBR shenanigans
I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😍
I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!
right, and so we need to do it differently.
