I am thrilled to endorse Steph Routh for East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District. Steph is deeply committed to the people of East County and will fight for our health and wellbeing just as she has done for over 20 years.
Key pt for those who want to cut transit funding because agencies are "inefficient." A big growth in transit costs since 2020 has been security, partly due to pressure from some of the same people who now want that to be evidence of inefficiency. By @idothethinking.bsky.social. Link in 1st reply.
Kent Ford endorsed Mitch Green for reelection. Mr. Ford has been fighting for his community for more than 60 years in Portland, establishing survival programs for basic needs like food and health care, and challenging racist government and state sanctioned violence from local police and feds.
Another amazing endorsement from the folks at Splendid Cycles! Promoting a healthier community by using the bicycle for transportation is our common bond. 🚲 Save money ✅️ Get healthy ✅️ Meet neighbors ✅️ #Tigard #TigardOregon #CargoBikes #SplendidCycles #Bikes #Bicycle
Steph’s a real one and we would be well served to have her leadership at the EMSWCD
Steph Routh (she/they)@stephrouth.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm running for East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, At Large 2 seat. This is an oft-overlooked and important body. Please spread the word using our website's Word of Mouth Kit created by incredible volunteer power! Thank you. Vote by November 3! #orpol #vote2026 stephfororegon.com
We had: ✅ record transit ridership since pre-pandemic ✅ increased bike ridership ✅in some areas LESS traffic ✅reduced emissions ✅reduced noise in local communities AAAAND it’s over get back in your car and drive
Nic Cota@nictrieslife.bsky.social · last mo.Gonna call it now: week 1 will be crazy. Week 2 a little elevated. Week 3: nearly normal. By week 5 we’re gonna be so close to normal traffic levels at the same time experiencing peak transit and bike ridership. All in time to revert back www.opb.org/article/2026...
I'm running for East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, At Large 2 seat. This is an oft-overlooked and important body. Please spread the word using our website's Word of Mouth Kit created by incredible volunteer power! Thank you. Vote by November 3! #orpol #vote2026 stephfororegon.com
Steph Routh for East Multnomah Soil & Water, At-Large 2
Clean water and healthy soil for East County. Steph Routh is running for East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, At-Large Director Position 2. Vote by November 3.
stephfororegon.com
Tualatin Valley Highway in Aloha (and most elsewhere) is a car sewer designed by ODOT and Washington County to ostracize, maim, and kill anyone outside of a vehicle.
Seattle touting their new waterfront public spaces and light rail on floating bridge (and they finally pedestrianized Pike Place Market)
One of Denver’s answers? Double downtime population: diverse, affordable and family friendly
One of Philadelphia’s answers to downtown vitality? Pedestrianize shopping streets!
Geometry: "The most important concept in transport planning. Everything else is footnotes." ~Jarrett Walker (@humantransit.bsky.social).
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s remarkable how many people can move on a street when those people don’t feel the need to always take a massive car with them. Mobility in cities is about space.
8600+ Oregonians took the Governor's survey on what they want to see in a future transportation package. What a surprise! People want to fix the damn roads, expand transit service and build safer streets. Oregonians are not clamoring for ODOT to spend billions on freeway expansions. #orleg #orpol
Here’s how Oregonians want the state to address its transportation budget crisis
Governor workgroup gave Oregonians one month to respond to transportation survey.
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Portland’s CEI Hub has 11 fuel terminals on land vulnerable to earthquakes. If a major disaster occurs, hazardous fuel could be released, threatening our neighborhoods, the Willamette River, & public health. The CEI safety concern extends beyond NW Portland.
Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social and @mayorkwilson.bsky.social, we need a bold transportation vision for Oregon and Portland. 0:00 Childhood 1:19 Mom Advocacy 3:09 Oregon? 4:27 Bike Train 7:35 E-bike Library 7:50 $ matters 8:30 Governor Kotek and Mayor Wilson www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XK...
2026 Alice Award Speech by Megan Ramey
YouTube video by bikabout
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Allan Classen, the editor of the NW Examiner, has chosen to exclude us and @jameyevenstar.bsky.social from their Candidate Debate by saying we haven’t raised enough money. Our campaign has raised over $130k and we’ve remained steadily ahead of Eric Zimmerman in contributions. This is a bad look.
They tried their best to make the idea of having more things we want nearby, more options and choices in our cities and neighborhoods, seem like a conspiracy. But never forget what the REAL urban conspiracy has been — moving everything further away and making us car dependent. #1HourCityConspiracy
for all the handwringing about city council drama i don’t think this gets emphasized nearly enough
Alex Zielinski@alexzee.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're approaching the second election under Portland's new ranked-choice system (and districts!). What have candidates and local politics watchers learned from the first election? It's a little 😫, a little 🤔 and mostly a lot of 🤷.
People's thoughts on building society around forced car dependency.
Someone smarter than me first said it but the paradox of American urban expressways is that they can only be repaired: the political costs of removal are too high but the financial costs of replacement (after a catastrophic closure, e.g. Embarcadero after Loma Prieta) are also too high
Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4w agoDefinitely not great that this highway will be locked in for another couple of generations, but it's also refreshing to hear a DOT commissioner say that fixing an urban highway is not ideal. Even that is a big change. But lacking a better federal DOT, we're kinda screwed.
10 of my 15 library borrowers have purchased their E-bike for car replacement. "This report shows that the Electrification + Mode Shift policy scenario alone can reduce annual fuel consumption in urban passenger transport by 70%" itdp.org/publication/...
Portland's Selena Deckelmann is among TIME's 2026 Executives of the Year siliconflorist.com/2026/09/22/s...
Selena Deckelmann recognized among 2026 Time Executives of the Year: Tech and Data – Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community
If you were anywhere near the Portland open source community at the turn of the century, you had heard of Selena Deckelmann. Back then, she was an active participant and contributor to the PostgreS…
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Did you know if you build fewer/smaller highways you have to spend less on maintenance? Crazy I know. I will never understand why we pour billions into the most space and cost inefficient transportation option, saddling us with massive future maintenance debt, while public transit gets crumbs.
No More Freeways@nomorefreewayspdx.com · 4w agoOregon's roads are in *terrible* shape - among the worst in the country! - and yet Governor Kotek, the Oregon Legislature and ODOT are still thinking about spending *billions* on a single hwy project to double the width of I-5 instead of maintaining our state's existing roads and bridges. enough!
Think homes are good? Then apply for the Planning Commission before Monday. www.portland.gov/bps/planning...
Planning Commission seeks candidates for open positions - deadline extended
The City of Portland is seeking members to serve on an advisory body responsible for long-range city planning. The deadline to apply has been extended to Monday, Sept. 21.
portland.gov
DOTs are using models and tools that are half a century old and extremely limited while talented researchers are creating modern tools and opening the source code. Why shouldn’t this be the standard transportation model? understandingtransport.substack.com/p/connectome...
Connectome v0.8.0
Ives Street is excited to announce the release of our travel demand modeling software, Connectome, under a license that makes it free to use for public agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutio...
understandingtransport.substack.com
If you have a few extra dollars, send it Shawne's way. If we say we value the things Shawne does - a livable planet above all - we need to be supporting those fighting the fight, especially when the odds seem insurmountable.
The explosion of e-bikes, e-trikes and e-scooters is truly revolutionary...The joy and freedom of biking is intoxicating for everyone who has had the opportunity to try out life on two or three wheels with a little e-boost.
Op-Ed | E-bikes mean freedom for low-vision cyclists like me: don’t take that away | amNewYork
So did a lot of other people who, like me, don’t have valid driver’s licenses. In July, the state’s new e-bike law went into effect. Among other regulations
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Replacing public transit autonomous vehicles would be neither fair nor effective even if they were widely available and safe. I would have thought this obvious but it's good to have the arguments spelled out clearly.
Jarrett Walker@humantransit.bsky.social · last mo.This post may be the most effective argument right now for letting public transit wither. It may not make sense to you, but it feels right to many, many people. So in a short new post, I talk through what's going on here, and how to engage with it. humantransit.org/2026/09/the-...
