Of course PBOT is going to immediately launch operation "think about it for a while" after driverists cut down their signs they stuck in the street for telling cars what to do, not like they always send crews out ASAP removing any guerrilla devices that potentially obstruct cars (oh wait...) Department of Letting Cars Boss Us Around here needs a better acronym. #Vision60or70something#PBOT#Portland#transportation#LowTrafficNeighborhoods#CarSupremacy#pdxBikes
Does nobody in PBOT leadership see the money we're dumping into maintaining asphalt? The transportation leaders in a city surrounded by suburbs need to default to an anti-car attitude in the same way that you would expect retail employees to not sell merchandise below cost. This is probably true for suburbs and small towns too, but Portland invites the burden of car traffic into itself from all sides.
Setting up my wearables installation with the CETI Institute in the Lloyd center (old GAP storefront) for the Portland Winter Lights Festival. Just need to clean up and tape down the power wires now. There are lots of other people setting up awesome original illuminated projects in the same space. If you're in the area, come by and check it out sometime this weekend. Info here: https://ceti.institute/event/constellations-2024/
@matthewcassinelli Ah! Now I get it. I actually ran into the same issue a while back — neither Broadcasts nor Triode knew some of “my” less mainstream EU stations, but since they allow creating custom stations, I just looked up the stream URL, and that was that.
The Bay Area has served me well the last ten years, but now it’s time to be closer to family, get more space to work from home, and experience living in my hometown as an actual adult.
"Gonzalez recently released a melodramatic video claiming he was "accosted" by a female fellow TriMet rider on January 27, who allegedly subjected him to “deliberate, unwanted physical contact” while also having the gall to criticize the public servant over his cruel policies. Unfortunately for him, TriMet video of the incident show he wildly exaggerated those claims, and AT MOST the woman may have brushed Gonzalez’s arm as she passed by"
The interview where he admits this intimidation was just "she sat down and started engaging about policy", he says more incidents like this won't get him to drop out of the mayoral race but it wasn't very convincing to me. 🤣
Remade 5th Ave downtown cart pod gets the thumbs up so far. Lot of visible security at lunch which these days is prob necessary to attract crowds. Moderately busy. Nice amenities. Good selection of carts. Unfortunately I can't recommend Dhaba Indian food, which is basic underseasoned mids, but that's part of cart life - not everything hits, get something else next time.
La Jarochita Mexican cart has been the can't miss move here for 15 years and is still around. Try a huarache
@NateFederman@mrcompletely oh snap maybe the guy moved up there, I’ll have to check it out. I taught myself how to make them (minus the 23 pleats) because nothing quite compared to the ones from that cart. The ones at DTF and XLB are but pale simulacra.
Y'all native #Portland folx are weird, get a little splash of rain in late August and start looking at your scarves are mittens like a lost soulmate returned.
But when late February rolls around and the sun peaks out in one parking lot on the other side of town, y'all suddenly forget it's still 40 out and start rocking shorts and t-shirts everywhere
@CathyTuttle@londoncycling@bikeloudpdx I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s women who need to talk about this. It’s a man problem. Men need to step up to stop their fellow men’s bigoted behavior. Everyone who can do so without severe personal risk should be prepared to intervene when they witness egregious incidents, but only men are welcome in the spaces where this behavior gets propagated and normalized. They must rebel against it.
@CathyTuttle i am regularly honked and yelled at for taking a lane on my small town’s main st. When I bring this up with friends they say they don’t experience that! It never occurred to me that the pushback I get for riding safely and assertively could be a result of my gender.
swept Multnomah to Oleson and back, Terwilliger OHSU to Taylor's Ferry (PBOT needs to do some heavy lifting farther south here & sidewalks too), sidewalks on bridge over the freeway, both sides of Barbur from 3rd to 19th (ODOT come get your broken asphalt bits, and sweep your sidewalks?), Barbur NB from 24th to Spring Garden -> 19th, Bertha, yesterday Vermont past the schools, Capitol Hwy Terwilliger to the bridge across Multnomah #pdxBikes#BikeLaneSweeper#Portland#transportation@bikeloudpdx
@lkanies IDK, it's weird somehow, and my handlebar + seatpost swap was quite the ordeal to fit me comfortably in a somewhat upright manner that I don't think is suited to this frame, tube angles and trail I guess. If you like riding a track or trials bike maybe, it seems to be built like that with the stock seatpost and wide flat handlebar forward over the front wheel. That said, I'm able to turn around in a pretty small circle on it with the sweeper + the orange front rack intimidates drivers
@lkanies also no brake cutouts to the motor control 😒 no the torque sensor is not enough to control that because it has too much lag, so I'm often fighting the motor with the brake because I need to pedal e.g. to shift or maneuver, but don't want laggy surges of power, and I like the pedal-mashing up and down response if I just want to be using full power. Maybe some people like it but mostly they combined some good parts and a weird frame to make a mid high-end department store assembly e-bike.
To hear them talk though, they think about 30% of people simply refuse to do anything but drive for any trips even 1/2 mile. And this does map to the number of people who voted for ted, but if they all drive every trip, that leaves no car trips in the emissions model for people who aren't climate denialist dickheads but actually have a justifiable reason to drive. Granted, some of those voters will be dead, but this 20yr strategy to reduce car use better pull out a rabbit in the last quarter.
@sanae@james we have electric biketown, which is also pretty expensive. But also adaptive biketown with e-assist trikes and handcycles for people to try it. I think a lot of what you're seeing in this survey is the wishing but also limits of imagination/awareness (i.e. many haven't tried biking because they're scared of cars, but once we get cars out of the way, they'll want e-bikes. Also most will not ever ride transit unless it runs every 5min 24x7 + to their door or they could bike to it)
As extractive “wildcrafting” has become popular, supposedly treaty-protected #Indigenous access to ancestral gathering sites has diminished, says Michelle Week (Sinixt, Arrow Lakes), who runs x̌ast sq̓it, an Indigenous foods farm near #Portland#Oregon.
“You have the privilege to go out and gather these things without fear of harassment, but my community, who’s native to this place, we just don’t have that luxury.”
Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk), author of the cookbook Chími Nu’am, says Native foods have a stigma---unless of course they’re on the menu at a #BayArea Michelin-starred French restaurant.
“They have rabbit, and quail, and deer meat, and our mushrooms, and our fish, and our shellfish, and all of that, that they are serving as the height of what you could eat as a human being. But they’re unavailable to the people who originally cultivated these foods into existence,” Olson says.
But sharing #Indigenous foods with the non-Native public can be hazardous. For one thing, there's the risk that non-Natives will commercialize, overharvest, "wildcraft" and "forage" the foods to death.
There are health hazards, too. Camas, for instance, is easily mistaken for ☠️ death camas 💀 and guess what happens when you eat death camas?