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portland·Portlandbyregul

Concrete planters for calming traffic removed after frequent collisions

The gist is that Portland drivers couldn't stop hitting crucial safety infrastructure (proving its necessity) so PBOT gave up on it.

As one of the commenters pointed out: Since a pedestrian/bike fatality costs PBOT nothing and replacing a concrete planter a car has demolished costs them more than nothing, to balance the budget they're going to go with more pedestrian deaths.

https://bikeportland.org/2024/07/30/concrete-planters-for-calming-traffic-removed-after-frequent-collisions-388923Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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portland·Portlandbyregul

Ask Eater: What’s Going on With the Flock Food Hall Downtown?

This is about the alleged food hall that was going to be coming to the Ritz Carlton Tower. They made a big show about how they'd be offering spots to the food carts they displaced.

Well now e-mails are bouncing and there's radio silence from everyone involved about whether there even will be a food hall anymore.

It sounds shocking, I know, but it certainly seems like the olive branch that they offered to assuage everyone's anger about the food carts they were displacing was a lie.

Ask Eater: What’s Going on With the Flock Food Hall Downtown?https://pdx.eater.com/2024/3/25/24111859/ask-eater-flock-food-hall-updateOpen linkView original on lemm.ee
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portland·Portlandbyregul

Monkey-wrenching road pricing

Here's the fallout from Kotek's decision to stop all tolling, as well as a history of promises made and then broken about tolling.

A couple of things I took from this article:

  • Oregon has reduced GHG emissions for most sectors except transportation
  • Tolling was part of the plan to reduce transportation emissions
  • Tolling on the I-5 Bridge will drastically reduce traffic on it, which obviates the need for more lanes
  • Only tolling on I-5 while leaving 205 free creates huge issues
  • The state was counting on tolling money for all of its projects, so car dependence is hurting car dependence, which is a small silver lining
Monkey-wrenching road pricinghttps://cityobservatory.org/monkey-wrenching-road-pricing/Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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portland·Portlandbyregul

Portland transportation director readies plan to remove key downtown protected bike lane – BikePortland

This seems to not be based on safety at all and is probably Mapps and Williams spending money PBOT doesn't have because of complaints by business owners that are not based on data.

Exactly the kind of stupid decisions I expected Mapps to make when Teddy appointed him.

Portland transportation director readies plan to remove key downtown protected bike lane – BikePortlandhttps://bikeportland.org/2023/09/18/portland-transportation-director-readies-plan-to-remove-key-downtown-protected-bike-lane-379505Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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