@trimet.org and @trimet.bsky.social, I've been a big supporter of directing City money to you in your time of need. Those decisions will be made in the next several months. You need to address this. You have real employees of color. Tell their stories.

Clayton@claytonwk.bsky.social · 14h ago

TriMet uses AI to put their employees in brownface by the way! I know the employee in question and he is a white man, and looks like he was AI prompted to be Latino/combined with one of my other old coworkers who is Latino

Can we PLEASE have a ballot measure that funds TriMet but also includes an audit/yearly report of how they’re spending money?

TriMet uses AI to put their employees in brownface by the way! I know the employee in question and he is a white man, and looks like he was AI prompted to be Latino/combined with one of my other old coworkers who is Latino

Donald Trump is an absolutely vile racist. Trump: “The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!”

Portland if everyone knew how vibey TriMet buses are when they turn on the pink lights at night

Obviously Christine Drazan is not the answer and I will not be voting for her, but I gotta say, after waiting 2 hours on the phone for Oregon unemployment for a job that failed to be funded by the state, while simultaneously walking past a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalk,

Gotta say…losing my job @ tri**t is affecting me more emotionally than I thought it would.

I LOVE the new Amtrak airo train!! I stopped by Tacoma and then took the max blue line to Gresham 😍

Every time I use the all gender restroom at PDX, I hear people freaked out that it’s for everyone and I really don’t understand why it’s such a big deal. The bathrooms are way nicer than the gendered ones

DCA=Haneda Dulles=Narita

The Virginia to PNW pipeline is real, I met multiple people at the wedding I attended that live in Seattle

The proposal to voters was shitty!!!! I voted yes on it, but I cannot 100% blame people for voting no on it when it was so regressive. People weren’t against the increased tax to transit, they were against the other stuff! Is this really the best Oregon can do?

Travis Nelson@travisnelson.bsky.social · last mo.

We’ll try again…. But the voters rejected funding to TriMet when they rejected our last transportation package.

hey pdx routle enjoyers — great chance to give back to the creator!

Routle - Transit routes quiz@routle.bsky.social · last mo.

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This is large scale disenfranchisement and now SCOTUS has even less excuse not to reject Trump's EO on mail voting. Allowing him to move forward would have clear negative harms to voters that could not be reversed, even as his claim for authority over voting processes is legally dubious.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

If anyone in the Portland area has any leads on a job please let me know 🙏 I have a ton of customer service experience, currently don’t have a college degree, and am open to working retail/food service

I’m surprised city employees already didn’t get a free TriMet pass???

Willamette Week@wweek.com · last mo.

The passes also suggest the mayor’s office is looking for new opportunities to chip away at two stubborn realities: remote work and low transit ridership.

this is not a defense (i'll block the first person who responds as if explanation is endorsement), but the neighborhood bar/restaurant owners i know are really, really fucking tired of the constant street hassle they and their patrons deal with, and this is the group reaching out to them

amb@amb.fyi · last mo.

Pretty disappointed to see a handful of notable Portland restaurants lend their name to the latest “Portland business chamber in sheep’s clothing” PAC. props for how breathlessly they repeat the word “progressive” in their rhetoric to justify their plan of tax cuts and more cops www.goportlandgo.org

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

It appears that every green line on the shorter route is now a 2 car consist which is great!

:( (i still think getting rid of the green line to downtown is better than many other cuts, and a lot of thought was put into connecting bus lines, but it still sucks heavily)

ODOT needs to hear from you - do you want the agency to prioritize investments in safer streets, road maintenance and transit restoration next year? I encourage all Oregonians to take this survey: https://www.cognitoforms.com/ODOT2/ROTVSurvey #orleg

Friendly reminder that employees of t**met have been screwed over so bad also…I love knowing I’m going to be unemployed next month with no specific date and everyone I know getting rejected to be an internal hire for bus driver

shouting into the void here, I know, but you are literally living in the thought experiment "Would you use an app owned by Adolf Hitler?"

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2mo ago

14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead

Billions of dollars to freeway expansion and the Blazers No money for TriMet This would essentially cut transit service in the metro area by HALF.

Khanh Pham for Oregon@khanhphamfororegon.com · 2mo ago

Update from @trimet.org today: Without additional revenue, TriMet's budget deficit will ultimately force the agency to cut in excess of 33% of its total service by 2030 or 2031. This is what a 31% service could look like:

I think the Lloyd Center redevelopment is a good thing and cities change, but I went today and it is was good seeing everyone there, and I’m sad that malls have died in favor of Amazon.

The reported ROI is 2-3 years. That’s incredible. Why is anyone against this?

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 2mo ago

An advancing Sound Transit proposal would spend $6 million for planning and design of fare gates at 14 Link stations, with a future Sound Transit board vote expected to allocate $87 million for full construction. Story: www.theurbanist.org/sound-transi...

That moment when the mayor of Bend is more progressive than the mayor of Portland 🫩

Mayor Melanie Kebler@melaniekebler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a lifetime Blazers fan, I remain confused by the approach to *gestures* all of this. Why wouldn't we want public tax dollars invested in the stadium to bring the most public ROI possible? Why would we expect a public body to start by negotiating against itself? Idk, idgi.

Nationwide, people are screaming at elected leaders at all levels of government to fight for them. Fight for our rights, fight for our future, fight for the things that we need to survive and thrive. Last night, more than half the city council decided the expedient move was to roll over.

Multnomah County Chair Vega Pederson hired Chris Oxley to lead their negotiations on the Moda Center renovation. Oxley formerly worked for the Blazers and currently serves as Board President at Sport Oregon, a nonprofit that has been lobbying for public funding of the Moda Center renovation.

unfathomable that the city is being asked to hand over four hundred million bucks with virtually no information on what the blazers are planning to spend it on - and that the loudest proponents of the deal are the councilors and business leaders who otherwise complain the city is poorly managed

Councilor Candace Avalos@counciloravalos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think it's really important that the public understand what the city's true commitment is because we keep saying and hearing $120M over 20 years, but it's really closer to $400 million. It makes sense for us to not pre-commit especially given that we're operating blind with no information.