“there’s nothing new under the sun but there are new suns” -Octavia Butler # 1 St. John’s bridge fan acct Alaska->PDX let’s plant trees in the street
I’d love to see Portland react to recent high profile cyclist killings in the door zone and instruct PBOT to remove door zone bike lanes from their playbook, and work on removing parking from our existing high traffic door zone bike lanes
OB CyclerDoorzone bike lanes are engineering malpractice.
in the midst of the Dundon fracas, city transportation officials quietly released a concept for a 6-7 mile linear park that would connect the entire central city of Portland, on both sides of the river, with a festive two way protected bike lane
2-way protected bike lane enthusiast“From Doom Loop to Green Loop: how a new focus on green infrastructure and just transition is making Portland a national climate resiliency leader” - cool newspapers someday maybe
“The Seattle Loop is a proposal to establish a municipal bank that can purchase Seattle’s bonds. When the city pays interest on those bonds, the money flows back from the bank into the city’s own general fund, where it can support further lending and public investment”
Money on the LeftPrototyping Democratic Public Finance With the Seattle Loop
Keith Ellison destroying X AI, I do love to see it! these tech types are so defeatable if our leaders simply try
Erin Maye QuadeHey Minnesota won and the nudification technology ban will go into effect tomorrow at 12:00AM!
Sanitation socialism
Mayor Zohran Kwame MamdaniNow this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.
Why does this matter so much? Because Portland’s bureaucracy currently defaults to brutalist interpretations of code, meaning we continue to prioritize new asphalt and concrete over the green infrastructure we need to cool the city.
Portland City Councilor Jamie DunphyI wrote the resolution that directed them to do this, so damned straight I'll be watching every step of the way to implementation.
This is what it looks like when a human being uses their emotional state to guide product use decisions. our most important decisions are often guided by feelings - embodied emotional states that reflect our relationships to other humans and the earth around us
Bill's Rad VermontI work in tech and there's lots of pressure to AI everything, but having all that wildfire smoke in VT for a week solidified my stance against AI for anything. I can't in good conscience use any AI tool when it means poisoning myself and others
imagine living in a society that takes bikes this seriously
Melissa & Chris BruntlettDuring design, project leaders undertook an extensive review of international best practices for cycle parking and transit-oriented development. At its heart was Utrecht Central Station, home to the world’s largest bike parking and widely regarded as the global benchmark for bike-train integration.
Losing a mature tree that provided canopy shade while calming car traffic on a designated bike street cannot be easily replaced somewhere else. Trees keep greenways cool, calm, and climate resilient while cleaning the air for cyclists
Dan Rouse 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸Counterpoint: a tree is a tree, and can be replaced with a new tree in a nearby location. A human life cannot be replaced and prioritizing pedestrian and cyclist safety is a higher good. Let's get more people out of cars