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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 1h

I love this history lesson. Thanks, Xavier

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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 11h

That slip is a relic from the bridge’s streetcar days: its wide turning radius geometry allowed trains to continue north to lower Albina. With no interurban making this movement anymore, there’s no reason to keep it open in 2025.

I say this as the resident slip lane closing guy.

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Rob Galanakis @robgalanakis.bsky.social · 6h

It's now a stakeout to get the rest of my gear. At 34th and Hawthorne.

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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 4h

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Heartbreaking from @wweek.com

If outreach workers are getting killed how can it be safe for families?

Is the city serious about this park being open to the public?

Talmage Ellis Was Stabbed to Death at the North Portland Park Where He Tried to Reduce Violence

Ellis’ death was a stark reminder that Dawson Park is still in the throes of violence.

www.wweek.com

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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning! starting today’s council meeting with a pre-gavel from Councilor Novick. We sang This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie!

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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 13h

Additionally, I saw that the slip lane at Larrabee is closed - probably for construction staging.

Can you work with @pbotinfo.bsky.social or @oregondot.bsky.social (not sure of jurisdiction) to keep the slip lane at Larrabee and Broadway closed permanently to vehicles?

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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 13h

@multco.bsky.social @pbotinfo.bsky.social

I saw the Broadway bridge is closing for repairs.

Are you going to remove the jersey barriers on the west side of the bridge that are pinching the bike lane (at Lovejoy and Broadway)? This has been a severe annoyance on my commute

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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 1d

Readers respond: Cap Portland property tax for seniors - oregonlive.com share.google/QTbu7DyFi8ax...

Is this a real thing? I hear that there are lots of programs to defer taxes, etc. In the mean time there are some properties that are paying an incredibly low amount of taxes relative to neighbors

Oregon Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather

Get the latest Oregon local news, sports, weather, entertainment and breaking updates on oregonlive.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are very deliberately trying to create an alternate reality. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 1d

not the Onion

Owen Massey @bookllyfr.bsky.social · 1d

A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...

#motonormativity

@apiln.bsky.social

Proposed 'eyesore' bench causes outrage among community

Plans for a new artistic bench that have been two years in the making have caused outrage among residents in Botley near an Oxford Brookes campus.

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

BYD sales in the UK up *880%* year on year.

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when you embrace the open market (used to be a thing, remember?). The UK chose not to impose tariffs on EV imports, unlike the EU and the US. And guess who benefits? The customers. Shocking! Scandalous! 😁

#evs #china #byd #usa #eu #cleantech #uk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BYD: Chinese EV giant sees UK sales soar by 880%

The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d

when you put off everything til tomorrow it really frees up your day nicely.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · Feb 17

We also saw "pluralistic ignorance": MOST PEOPLE SUPPORTED NON-CAR TRAVEL, BUT THOUGHT THEY WERE THE MINORITY! 65-69% said they support non-car travel more than other people, which can't be true. Does the majority assume their own view is odd and so go quiet in debate, thus enabling loud minorities?

Part of a diagram showing some data from the UK. This shows, for example, how when discussing non-car travel, 65% of people thought their own level of support was higher than the public's support, and only 6% thought their own level of support for non-car travel was lower than the general public's support

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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇 @bradleybondy.com · 2d

Portland peeps:

If you got a stack of newspapers lying around, I need them for a big paper mache whale.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

Infill housing is climate action. More people need to live in the blue zones. Excellent to see @jasonthorne.bsky.social posting this; leaders, take note.

Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 2d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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A Spooky Vern @quintonmurdock.bsky.social · 2d

Max and streetcar do not have signal priority and it's an absolute joke

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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 2d

It's honestly bonkers that the Portland Streetcar doesn't have signal priority. It would instantly change the face of public transportation in Portland and likely be a fairly simple change.

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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 2d

Last week a building permit was issued for what I think is the first building to have taken advantage of Portland's new SDC waiver.

It's an 18 unit building at N Interstate and Bryant. 1/3 www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi...

Screenshot from Portland Maps with aerial view and text "PDOX PS - NEW FOUR-STORY MIXED-USE BUILDING WITH 18 UNITS AND ONE GROUND FLOOR RETAIL UNIT."

Street view of site at N Interstate and N Bryant

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 7d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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StreetsPAC @streetspac.org · 5d

This is so good.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

This Block Party Brings People Together. A Lot of People.

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Lascher @bill-lascher.bsky.social · 5d

Of all the all-too-predictable “unprecedented” actions of the Trump Administration and its fascist allies, I did not have them accusing the Portland Police Bureau of anti-fascist sympathies on my 2025 bingo card.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 5d

Portland:

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 5d

There are at least 50 federal agents at the Portland ICE facility tonight.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 5d

If you think the military should be deployed into American cities because there’s the slightest tension at a protest, congratulations!

You are a fascist!

Lots of people want to hold fascist ideologies without realizing what they’ve become, but we have words to describe things and that’s what u are

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Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social · 5d

Once in a while a critical mass of Portland—municipal/state government apparatuses, lawyers, advocates, protesters, media, businesses—can unite and tell the federal government, “I don’t remember asking you a goddamn thing!” in unison.

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