The similarities between this case and the far more damaging plan to open a large overnight shelter in NW could not be more glaring. In both, the City has apparently pushed ahead without transparent process, data-driven justification, or meaningful community engagement. The only difference is that here, the project was swiftly paused once District 4 representatives stepped in—while hundreds of residents/business owners have shown up, written, testified, and pleaded for the city to reconsider the ill-advised shelter plan, only to be ignored. Why is this much smaller matter granted immediate attention and support from District 4 reps while large and costly homeless policy decisions that impact thousands are not getting the same level of consideration? Do we need to prove we ride bicycles or check some other political box to be taken seriously?
A “victory for transparency, citizen participation, and data driven policy”… are these things supported by our city government in larger policies that impact livability and safety or just specific traffic diverters?
Three DSA councilors (Green, Kanal, and Koyama Lane) showed up for traffic diverters. Why not for shelters that reshape entire neighborhoods? You nailed it. The real issue isn’t diverters versus shelters, it's the process.
I agree. The NWCC was largely ignored because they are viewed by the DSA as the capitalist car-driving nimby society. And because they are too smart to vote for the DSA.
The bike activists make up a tiny portion of Pdx, yet they have an outsized entitled voice in PBOT and clearly city hall. How this is possible is beyond me, but it’s likely due to ppl like Mickey Maus working for PBOT.
TKL, Green, and Kanal are three of the most useless city councilors. They spend their time, when they aren’t making TikTok videos, defending hunks of concrete and privileged (99% white) bike activists with nothing better to do than push their anti-car beliefs on the city. Many of these protesters are the same ppl that testify week after week at city hall in their matching red shirts.
Only 3% of Portlanders bike commute, but these activists clearly have vast amounts of free time and resources to argue against PEMO recommendations while the rest of us have jobs to get to and families to feed. No one else even cares. If it’s what’s recommended by PEMO and Safety then great, follow the recs. Cracks me up how the bike activists claim Fire & PPB can get through there just fine. Last time I checked they don’t drive and have no businesses making recommendations to the city.
The DSA did the same shit saying “parks are public safety” and now “diverters are public safety.” What their signs should really say is “anything to prevent police from enforcing the law is a cause I can get behind.” Which is why having Kanal & Morillo on the public safety committee is pretty ridiculous. I highly doubt any of the DSA councilors bike commute. Well, except maybe Mitch.
But they’ve gotta keep the TikTok followers and the Mickey Maus club happy so they can get those votes! It’s not like they need that many votes to get re-elected anyways.
Your last sentence says something that no one in media wants to utter...the voting system produced these minorities-within-minorities. You're stuck with 'em.
The city charter is "working" just as Julia Meier and her acolytes on the charter commission designed it--a city run by and for loudmouthed, organized, and dare we say fanatical "minorities." It was sold as a sop to BIPOCs, but in reality put the socialist cult in the driver's seat...all "elected" with just 25-percent of a computer-controlled vote. This ain't gonna change, and people can write all the memos they want--the coup worked.
The similarities between this case and the far more damaging plan to open a large overnight shelter in NW could not be more glaring. In both, the City has apparently pushed ahead without transparent process, data-driven justification, or meaningful community engagement. The only difference is that here, the project was swiftly paused once District 4 representatives stepped in—while hundreds of residents/business owners have shown up, written, testified, and pleaded for the city to reconsider the ill-advised shelter plan, only to be ignored. Why is this much smaller matter granted immediate attention and support from District 4 reps while large and costly homeless policy decisions that impact thousands are not getting the same level of consideration? Do we need to prove we ride bicycles or check some other political box to be taken seriously?
A “victory for transparency, citizen participation, and data driven policy”… are these things supported by our city government in larger policies that impact livability and safety or just specific traffic diverters?
Three DSA councilors (Green, Kanal, and Koyama Lane) showed up for traffic diverters. Why not for shelters that reshape entire neighborhoods? You nailed it. The real issue isn’t diverters versus shelters, it's the process.
I agree. The NWCC was largely ignored because they are viewed by the DSA as the capitalist car-driving nimby society. And because they are too smart to vote for the DSA.
The bike activists make up a tiny portion of Pdx, yet they have an outsized entitled voice in PBOT and clearly city hall. How this is possible is beyond me, but it’s likely due to ppl like Mickey Maus working for PBOT.
TKL, Green, and Kanal are three of the most useless city councilors. They spend their time, when they aren’t making TikTok videos, defending hunks of concrete and privileged (99% white) bike activists with nothing better to do than push their anti-car beliefs on the city. Many of these protesters are the same ppl that testify week after week at city hall in their matching red shirts.
Only 3% of Portlanders bike commute, but these activists clearly have vast amounts of free time and resources to argue against PEMO recommendations while the rest of us have jobs to get to and families to feed. No one else even cares. If it’s what’s recommended by PEMO and Safety then great, follow the recs. Cracks me up how the bike activists claim Fire & PPB can get through there just fine. Last time I checked they don’t drive and have no businesses making recommendations to the city.
The DSA did the same shit saying “parks are public safety” and now “diverters are public safety.” What their signs should really say is “anything to prevent police from enforcing the law is a cause I can get behind.” Which is why having Kanal & Morillo on the public safety committee is pretty ridiculous. I highly doubt any of the DSA councilors bike commute. Well, except maybe Mitch.
But they’ve gotta keep the TikTok followers and the Mickey Maus club happy so they can get those votes! It’s not like they need that many votes to get re-elected anyways.
Your last sentence says something that no one in media wants to utter...the voting system produced these minorities-within-minorities. You're stuck with 'em.
The city charter is "working" just as Julia Meier and her acolytes on the charter commission designed it--a city run by and for loudmouthed, organized, and dare we say fanatical "minorities." It was sold as a sop to BIPOCs, but in reality put the socialist cult in the driver's seat...all "elected" with just 25-percent of a computer-controlled vote. This ain't gonna change, and people can write all the memos they want--the coup worked.