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   😀🚲 (enobacon@urbanists.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 02:33:00 JST 😀🚲

   Is it possible to "fund safety" in #transportation if you can't first move the default away from the idea that "austerity" means maintaining five car lanes with no bike lanes or sidewalks? Those car lanes aren't free to maintain, let alone with $3M in stop light hardware at every intersection, but an agency with ~$4B annual budget can't change it without more money? The gas tax is bringing less per-mile revenue than it costs to keep all of this as-is, that's the whole problem. #defundDOTs

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     😀🚲 (enobacon@urbanists.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 02:32:56 JST 😀🚲

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     “Anything we do that is not optimizing getting people out of cars and getting them to a bus stop, or allowing them to walk from their neighborhood to a school with their kids, or do a #bikeBus, or ride, walk & roll around [#Portland] — If we are not prioritizing that —then every other little piddly, marginal thing we do for the climate is much less important, because most of our emissions come from automobiles… and I think it’ll save us money in the long run.” 🎯 💯 #ClimateAction #transportation

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     😀🚲 (enobacon@urbanists.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 02:32:57 JST 😀🚲

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     Thank you Mitch Green for representing D4 "making sure that we are enabling our bureaus to do what they do best — which is stay the course on a good plan and not get derailed because somebody at the Benson Hotel called a commissioner.”

     (a reference to https://bikeportland.org/tag/broadway-bike-lane-scandal -- the above quote is in the previous link)

     Børge repeated this.
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     😀🚲 (enobacon@urbanists.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 02:32:58 JST 😀🚲

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     At least in #Portland, where all public meetings are held in the nude and on bikes, socialism is understood as economic policy that's good for society, and not some pagan authoritarian boogeyman

     https://bikeportland.org/2025/07/17/councilor-mitch-green-is-portlands-socialist-transportation-champion-395508

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     😀🚲 (enobacon@urbanists.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 02:32:59 JST 😀🚲

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     When nobody who has an option to drive would choose to walk or bike across the street, the system is unconstitutional, but good luck finding a judge who didn't drive to work after you get killed for exercising your rights. Unfortunately drivers are all too eager to embrace fascism.

     https://bikeportland.org/2025/07/15/would-you-pay-an-extra-60-per-year-to-save-odot-395461