If it's money from citizen's pocket to agency budgets, no community consensus is required, only regular patrols to enforce the "law".
Way to go Portland! You are expert in killing businesses, emptying public venues and punishing an already extorted public to ensure more "law abiding" behavior including tents, garbage, drug use, vagrancy have the needed spaces to exist on our streets. Bravo.
Well put! PBOT has a reputation for cramming things down the throats of neighborhood residents without input. Portland is supposedly all about "equity", but whatever doesn't fit the fever-dream aspirations of the bureaucrats and social engineers who run the bureaucracy (and now the City Council) is ignored publicly and ridiculed privately. We are only taxpayers to be milked until sucked dry, not constituents whom they are serving.
Yep. They asked for ZERO community input when they took away car lanes on Broadway & weidler. The medians extend into the roadway making it hard to turn and I can’t see shit with all the parked cars in my field of vision. But someone had to draw a penis on a pothole, only a few blocks away, to get it fixed.
"The incompetent telling the unwilling to do the unnecessary!"
"PBOT staff asked committee members to designate a color—red, green or yellow—to reflect their leaning on the topic."
....they don't get support for their proposal as red flashed repeatedly so.....
....they backtrack and say they now don't really want to get opinions from anyone (because such opinions disagree with what PBOT wants)....
“'I'm getting feedback that doing a temperature check at this point is not something that we actually really want to do at this moment,' said Ong, using extra words instead of explanation."
...and then of course- with no more public input- they plow right ahead to do what they wanted in the first place.
So ironic, isn't it? Centrist, rational, law-abiding, taxpaying Portland voters have MAGA-craziness coming out of Washington and Social Justice Warrior, hyper-progressive looniness coming out of our City Council and County Commission. It's enough to drive one to distraction... or to move.
Isn’t it pretty blatantly obvious that most of our government (city, county, right on up to the state - see large transportation tax bill being forced through this weekend in Salem) isn’t working for us anymore, but in fact, they seem openly hostile to the residents/businesses on whom everything is actually built? Everyone currently “running” things needs to go and a large message needs to be sent in the next election cycles. Hopefully Portland voters will finally figure this out and act accordingly, instead of making self defeating decisions at the polls again and then acting surprised for the next four years as their taxes and fees go up as quality of life takes a dramatic dive.
I recall reading that this is supposed to encourage public transportation use, among other things. On the other hand, yesterday the reader boards on streetcar stops were signaling that there would be longer waits for the NS line because of staffing shortages. I waited through two cycles. And yes, I know it was Sunday. Still . . .
If they have such “budget constraints” why are they putting in expensive and confusing infrastructure where it’s not needed or wanted? Trimet is another one. Both of these agencies lobbied for an increase in state taxes this session to fund NEW electric buses and NEW Vision Zero projects. PBOT has failed to fix our roads, but keeps loading on more fees. Just another expensive scam for the special interest groups that are wildly entitled.
If it's money from citizen's pocket to agency budgets, no community consensus is required, only regular patrols to enforce the "law".
Way to go Portland! You are expert in killing businesses, emptying public venues and punishing an already extorted public to ensure more "law abiding" behavior including tents, garbage, drug use, vagrancy have the needed spaces to exist on our streets. Bravo.
Well put! PBOT has a reputation for cramming things down the throats of neighborhood residents without input. Portland is supposedly all about "equity", but whatever doesn't fit the fever-dream aspirations of the bureaucrats and social engineers who run the bureaucracy (and now the City Council) is ignored publicly and ridiculed privately. We are only taxpayers to be milked until sucked dry, not constituents whom they are serving.
Our "lived experience" means nothing to them.
Yep. They asked for ZERO community input when they took away car lanes on Broadway & weidler. The medians extend into the roadway making it hard to turn and I can’t see shit with all the parked cars in my field of vision. But someone had to draw a penis on a pothole, only a few blocks away, to get it fixed.
"The incompetent telling the unwilling to do the unnecessary!"
"PBOT staff asked committee members to designate a color—red, green or yellow—to reflect their leaning on the topic."
....they don't get support for their proposal as red flashed repeatedly so.....
....they backtrack and say they now don't really want to get opinions from anyone (because such opinions disagree with what PBOT wants)....
“'I'm getting feedback that doing a temperature check at this point is not something that we actually really want to do at this moment,' said Ong, using extra words instead of explanation."
...and then of course- with no more public input- they plow right ahead to do what they wanted in the first place.
This "color scheming" is right up there with my favorite request of people under duress in Urgent Care: "Rate your pain on a scale of 1-10."
You’ve aptly described the Trump 2.0 Administration, not just the City of Portland.
So ironic, isn't it? Centrist, rational, law-abiding, taxpaying Portland voters have MAGA-craziness coming out of Washington and Social Justice Warrior, hyper-progressive looniness coming out of our City Council and County Commission. It's enough to drive one to distraction... or to move.
Isn’t it pretty blatantly obvious that most of our government (city, county, right on up to the state - see large transportation tax bill being forced through this weekend in Salem) isn’t working for us anymore, but in fact, they seem openly hostile to the residents/businesses on whom everything is actually built? Everyone currently “running” things needs to go and a large message needs to be sent in the next election cycles. Hopefully Portland voters will finally figure this out and act accordingly, instead of making self defeating decisions at the polls again and then acting surprised for the next four years as their taxes and fees go up as quality of life takes a dramatic dive.
If their intent is to kill Portland then they’re certainly on the right track!
I recall reading that this is supposed to encourage public transportation use, among other things. On the other hand, yesterday the reader boards on streetcar stops were signaling that there would be longer waits for the NS line because of staffing shortages. I waited through two cycles. And yes, I know it was Sunday. Still . . .
Not encourage, force.
If they have such “budget constraints” why are they putting in expensive and confusing infrastructure where it’s not needed or wanted? Trimet is another one. Both of these agencies lobbied for an increase in state taxes this session to fund NEW electric buses and NEW Vision Zero projects. PBOT has failed to fix our roads, but keeps loading on more fees. Just another expensive scam for the special interest groups that are wildly entitled.