With so many businesses struggling to keep their doors open, raising parking rates and extending the hours of meter enforcement into the evening seem like COMPLETELY bone-headed ideas.
Are parking regulations and fees intended to help businesses, their customers and residents of the area by providing fair parking access for all with a stake/role in the neighborhood, or is the main purpose propping up a Bureau of Transportation that puts revenue generation first?
I for one will no longer gravitate to NW or any of the evening functions if pay times are extended.
If PBOT who is already decimating huge areas in our city especially all over SE taking away car lanes for buses that remain empty and runs canceled while we sit in unbelievable gridlock looking at empty dedicated ‘ BUS LANES’,
I will not be renewing my season tickets to both the ballet and theater, nor support the jazz bar downtown either. I no longer have that kind of extra money as an older citizen and yet am continuing to try and support the arts and restaurants downtown.
PBOT continues to prove that they have zero idea abt working people’s needs including using their own cars, not mass transportation as well as the fine line balance of anyone’s budget in this city continuing to be overtaxed.
They do not represent or understand the city anymore as life-timers here do.
What abt our BASIC street needs?!? Pot holes, striping and road reflectors that don't even exist anymore and speaking up here for SE, that are creating huge liabilities on any rainy night, especially with the miles of both wide and high center islands of concrete and more concrete barriers running along bike lanes sandwiching us into car swiping scenarios as well as damaging cars weekly hitting these huge concrete islands with millions of mis spent dollars NOT being used for the most basics of basics. Cops and ambulances can no longer get through on SE Division because of concrete barriers parallel to bike barriers for several miles.
NW and SE seem to have been targeted heavily with misspent dollars and no actual reality in how PBOT continues to decimate our struggling city in the most un thought out ways. Useless busy work wasting money that should be shoring up the most basic safety needs.
PBOT continues to claim broke as we watch them put in new underutilized bike lanes, complete with confusing inconsistent signage that is also visually distracting.
The vast majority of Portlanders don’t want these “traffic calming measures,” which just gives the environmental socialists an excuse to raise taxes and make it harder to drive. Kills 2 birds with one stone. And no, raising parking fees does not help local businesses no matter how much they try to twist the data to say it does.
Hey PBOT- How about fixing the damn potholes. Like on 23rd north of Lovejoy to Thurman. And elsewhere throughout the city.
That's what residents are concerned about, not finding a parking spot!
With so many businesses struggling to keep their doors open, raising parking rates and extending the hours of meter enforcement into the evening seem like COMPLETELY bone-headed ideas.
Are parking regulations and fees intended to help businesses, their customers and residents of the area by providing fair parking access for all with a stake/role in the neighborhood, or is the main purpose propping up a Bureau of Transportation that puts revenue generation first?
I for one will no longer gravitate to NW or any of the evening functions if pay times are extended.
If PBOT who is already decimating huge areas in our city especially all over SE taking away car lanes for buses that remain empty and runs canceled while we sit in unbelievable gridlock looking at empty dedicated ‘ BUS LANES’,
I will not be renewing my season tickets to both the ballet and theater, nor support the jazz bar downtown either. I no longer have that kind of extra money as an older citizen and yet am continuing to try and support the arts and restaurants downtown.
PBOT continues to prove that they have zero idea abt working people’s needs including using their own cars, not mass transportation as well as the fine line balance of anyone’s budget in this city continuing to be overtaxed.
They do not represent or understand the city anymore as life-timers here do.
What abt our BASIC street needs?!? Pot holes, striping and road reflectors that don't even exist anymore and speaking up here for SE, that are creating huge liabilities on any rainy night, especially with the miles of both wide and high center islands of concrete and more concrete barriers running along bike lanes sandwiching us into car swiping scenarios as well as damaging cars weekly hitting these huge concrete islands with millions of mis spent dollars NOT being used for the most basics of basics. Cops and ambulances can no longer get through on SE Division because of concrete barriers parallel to bike barriers for several miles.
NW and SE seem to have been targeted heavily with misspent dollars and no actual reality in how PBOT continues to decimate our struggling city in the most un thought out ways. Useless busy work wasting money that should be shoring up the most basic safety needs.
J. Scott
PBOT continues to claim broke as we watch them put in new underutilized bike lanes, complete with confusing inconsistent signage that is also visually distracting.
The vast majority of Portlanders don’t want these “traffic calming measures,” which just gives the environmental socialists an excuse to raise taxes and make it harder to drive. Kills 2 birds with one stone. And no, raising parking fees does not help local businesses no matter how much they try to twist the data to say it does.