David Binnig
@binnig.bsky.social
Portlander. Transportation & housing hobbyist.
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The single most important climate investments as it relates to transit are those that improve ridership. Everything else should wait. I'd rather see lower headways than a fleet transition to zero emissions tailpipes. Let's get our ridership back up before we make those investments.
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The single most important climate investments as it relates to transit are those that improve ridership. Everything else should wait. I'd rather see lower headways than a fleet transition to zero emissions tailpipes. Let's get our ridership back up before we make those investments.
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Portland's transit agency @trimet.org is proposing to delete all service within 1/4 mile of a major medical center!
They appear to be so broke that this, and many other dramatic cuts, are the least-bad option. My deep dive:
humantransit.org/2026/01/port...
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They appear to be so broke that this, and many other dramatic cuts, are the least-bad option. My deep dive:
humantransit.org/2026/01/port...
Comment by this Sat 1/31! (Link in post)
Portland: Dire Transit Service Cuts Planned — Human Transit
Very bad transit service cuts are coming to Portland. Just a couple of years ago, we worked with Portland’s TriMet to develop an ambitious service expansion plan called Forward Together. Now, the age...
humantransit.org
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Portland's transit agency @trimet.org is proposing to delete all service within 1/4 mile of a major medical center!
They appear to be so broke that this, and many other dramatic cuts, are the least-bad option. My deep dive:
humantransit.org/2026/01/port...
Comment by this Sat 1/31! (Link in post)
They appear to be so broke that this, and many other dramatic cuts, are the least-bad option. My deep dive:
humantransit.org/2026/01/port...
Comment by this Sat 1/31! (Link in post)
People are reading it as an initiative about meat, but IP 28 would also make it a criminal offense to kill rats or mice in Oregon.
A radical ballot initiative on animal rights is faring better—and operating far more efficiently—than an initiative promising equal rights for humans.
Only Two Groups Have Submitted Signatures for 2026 Ballot Initiatives. They Aim at Very Different Issues.
Nigel Jaquiss
www.wweek.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
People are reading it as an initiative about meat, but IP 28 would also make it a criminal offense to kill rats or mice in Oregon.
In the 1970s a self-employed tailor could support a family of 35 on a single income and pay for a furnished new house with a big bag of money.
January 28, 2026 at 7:17 PM
In the 1970s a self-employed tailor could support a family of 35 on a single income and pay for a furnished new house with a big bag of money.
They were probably more Reich fans anyway.
Lots of guys with backwards ball caps and truck nutz never gonna listen to Philip Glass again
January 27, 2026 at 8:44 PM
They were probably more Reich fans anyway.
Hard lesson for west coast cities but it’s okay for some things to be neither mandatory nor prohibited.
To celebrate the possibility that SB 6026 will end mandates for apartment buildings to have commercial uses on their ground floors, here's a bunch of pics of empty retail spaces in Seattle's Capitol Hill, the most densely populated neighborhood in WA.
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
January 27, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Hard lesson for west coast cities but it’s okay for some things to be neither mandatory nor prohibited.
Policy through posting: Councilor Green asks about this in the committee meeting 20 minutes later.
hi @councilormorillo.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social I'm watching the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee meeting today - wonder if the retail + prepared foods fees proposed would make sense to have exemptions for bike / non-car delivery. Anything to drive mode share change!
January 26, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Policy through posting: Councilor Green asks about this in the committee meeting 20 minutes later.
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you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
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i have zero interest in turning a question about protest tactics into a debate about who is more righteous. it's completely irrelevant. the only question about protest tactics is "we are out of power. how do we get from where we are to a position of having power." that's it. that's the ball game.
January 24, 2026 at 7:49 PM
i have zero interest in turning a question about protest tactics into a debate about who is more righteous. it's completely irrelevant. the only question about protest tactics is "we are out of power. how do we get from where we are to a position of having power." that's it. that's the ball game.
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I think this pizza parlor poster is explaining intersection daylighting in Italian
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I think this pizza parlor poster is explaining intersection daylighting in Italian
Major error by Hamilton in assuming you could count on senators to have pride.
January 20, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Major error by Hamilton in assuming you could count on senators to have pride.
Martin Luther King long since hit the point where (like Jesus!) a lot of people interpret him primarily by hunting for quotes on the assumption that he would have agreed with them on all things.
I.E., someone you probably disagree with on a substantial amount of stuff! He wrote and said a lot, chances are you disagree with some of it in pretty serious ways and it's a measure of respect to take him seriously and engage with those areas of disagreement
January 19, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Martin Luther King long since hit the point where (like Jesus!) a lot of people interpret him primarily by hunting for quotes on the assumption that he would have agreed with them on all things.
I endorse this recommendation.
(I also gave it to my father-in-law for Christmas.)
(I also gave it to my father-in-law for Christmas.)
“Waging a Good War” is an incredibly valuable book for our current moment - it has greatly informed my tactical thinking. I strongly suggest everyone read it.
January 17, 2026 at 4:53 AM
I endorse this recommendation.
(I also gave it to my father-in-law for Christmas.)
(I also gave it to my father-in-law for Christmas.)
“The city that plans.” Good critique from Councilor Dunphy.
dunphy: "we have a tradition of beautiful PDFs" where we ask community members for advice, compile it into a document, and never look at it again
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
“The city that plans.” Good critique from Councilor Dunphy.
Dunphy commits: “I will be voting for the hot dog thing.”
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Dunphy commits: “I will be voting for the hot dog thing.”
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dunphy commits to not seeking reelection for council president. wants to have conversations about getting to seven for the next president sooner rather than later
January 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
dunphy commits to not seeking reelection for council president. wants to have conversations about getting to seven for the next president sooner rather than later
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
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I think we need to go back to the drawing board and consider the alternative replacement schemes that don't involve a dozen miles of new freeways and several rebuilt interchanges.
Willamette Week reports the price estimate for the Interstate Bridge Replacement has more than doubled to $13.6 billion. www.wweek.com/news/state/2...
Interstate Bridge Staff Hid Information About Ballooning Cost of Giant Highway Project
The estimated price tag more than doubled from $6 billion to $13.6 billion, but staff told a bistate panel Dec. 15 it didn’t have new numbers.
www.wweek.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:48 AM
I think we need to go back to the drawing board and consider the alternative replacement schemes that don't involve a dozen miles of new freeways and several rebuilt interchanges.
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@fischer.bsky.social and @ecosozialismus.bsky.social are doing public service liveposting about today's council president vote 🫡
January 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
@fischer.bsky.social and @ecosozialismus.bsky.social are doing public service liveposting about today's council president vote 🫡
I told my kid we were going to watch the ball drop in NYC and it turned out she was expecting a meteor impact.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I told my kid we were going to watch the ball drop in NYC and it turned out she was expecting a meteor impact.
I remember as a kid reading about the Vinland Map, a 1950s forgery purporting to be a pre-Columbian map showing that vikings had visited North America.
A decade later the L'Anse aux Meadows site proved they had—so it was a forged record of a true event.
A decade later the L'Anse aux Meadows site proved they had—so it was a forged record of a true event.
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I remember as a kid reading about the Vinland Map, a 1950s forgery purporting to be a pre-Columbian map showing that vikings had visited North America.
A decade later the L'Anse aux Meadows site proved they had—so it was a forged record of a true event.
A decade later the L'Anse aux Meadows site proved they had—so it was a forged record of a true event.
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portland’s residential infill project was a huge step towards ending exclusionary zoning but middle housing improvements are moving so fast in other cities that we’re starting to look conservative in comparison
Seattle Council Approves Eight-Unit Apartment Buildings Everywhere - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Maybe calling them “stacked flats,” rather than “apartments,” was a stroke of genius. On Tuesday, the…
publicola.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
portland’s residential infill project was a huge step towards ending exclusionary zoning but middle housing improvements are moving so fast in other cities that we’re starting to look conservative in comparison
James Madison on housing policy.
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
James Madison on housing policy.
Interesting conversation in the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee meeting this morning about balancing the ways that PBOT’s public engagement processes can sometimes make it hard to act on changes from the status quo.
m.youtube.com/live/0FFzlXG...
m.youtube.com/live/0FFzlXG...
Portland City Council Transportation & Infrastructure Committee 12/15/25
YouTube video by eGov PDX
m.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Interesting conversation in the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee meeting this morning about balancing the ways that PBOT’s public engagement processes can sometimes make it hard to act on changes from the status quo.
m.youtube.com/live/0FFzlXG...
m.youtube.com/live/0FFzlXG...
A car is a calzone; a horse is toast.
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
A car is a calzone; a horse is toast.