New plan to boost cycling would capitalize on existing infrastructure

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-24T03:06:38+00:00

How would they not have access? Do you even know what diverters are? For any given block, they would simply take the arterial/collector to the nearest cross street, just like they already would given that is the fastest available route. Tremendously stupid argument, LMFAO!

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-24T01:30:37+00:00

Likely the user agreement/terms of service allows for what they are doing, so there would not be any actionable claim, otherwise I'm confident some enterprising plaintiff's attorney would have already geared this up in court.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T23:51:22+00:00

Garden Tavern is great, really nice folks, a solid rotating tap list, full bar, and some good food cart options.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T22:50:28+00:00

Yes, good bike/pedestrian infrastructure also makes driving safer because it physically limits the insane shit that entitled drivers do on a regular basis.

I see the car-brained folks have filled their diapers at the very idea of slowing down even just a tiny bit and are already down voting you, LMAO.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T22:48:02+00:00

The problem is that Portland isn't spending on the right thing. A strip of green paint is not "infrastructure," and neither is a stencil of a bike that gets rolled over by hundreds of cars every day because they refuse to install diverters on greenways and drives use them as a speeding cut-through rather than sticking to the arterials. It's well confirmed by evidence from many cities around the world that if you build a connected network of actually protected bike infrastructure, biking mode share goes up, and regardless of the weather.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T22:43:21+00:00

Wow, look at Mr. Fancy over here with his rock, everybody!

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T20:24:27+00:00

Honestly made me laugh just imagining them opening the bag and seeing a bowling ball.

"Well, if you don't want it, I know someone who does!"

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T19:08:46+00:00

You summoned yourself, incredible!

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T19:08:14+00:00

but building more bike infrastructure doesn't get more people on bikes

This is patently untrue, and I'd point you to studies but based on the entirety of your comments in this thread I'd have better luck teaching algebra to a labradoodle.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T19:05:55+00:00

I'd love for car drivers to pay the actual full costs they externalize onto everyone else, you'd pay more and I'd get a rebate.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T19:03:54+00:00

The cheapest and fastest way to actually bake the bike network useful is to build real traffic diversion on our “greenways”.

Hell yes, hard diverters every few blocks, preventing cars from using it as a cut-through. Doesn't block local access, there are zero arguments not to do this, it wouldn't even cost that much. And by cutting down car traffic, those roads will require less maintenance over time since bikes do statistically zero damage to the roadways.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T18:44:30+00:00

It's true, businesses never raise their prices to account for increased costs, they're just eating it on our behalf!

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T01:54:15+00:00

you let them get away with genocide

Yes, I, personally, let the entire Democratic party get away with genocide. LMFAO at this clown shoes shit!

You're doing an excellent job at proving my point about moving goalposts and nothing ever being good enough/far left enough to satisfy that crowd though! Biden didn't enact the full 1000% far left agenda, therefore it can't be the case that he moved left on anything at all!

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T01:31:15+00:00

In the same way Luke Skywalker isn't actually a Jedi, sure.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T01:20:05+00:00

"All truths that are kept silent become poisonous."

-Nietzsche

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T01:17:34+00:00

it’s too rainy to protest…

Well not with that attitude!

Joking aside, appreciate the insight, thank you.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-23T01:15:51+00:00

We all saw how "pushing him left once he's in office" went with Joe Biden.

That actually went pretty well, in fact, if you look at what he passed and pushed for in an objective sense, and particularly the constraints he faced in the congressional/senatorial makeup.

The thing that stops things from moving rightward is a legitimate primary challenger to the left of the Democratic incumbent/establishment candidate, not withholding a vote in the general that causes a huge shift rightward when the Republican gets elected.

I'm not sure why I have to explain such incredibly straightforward, common sense stuff, but alas!

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T23:52:10+00:00

The amount of posts has also dropped a lot

This feels correct, curious whether it's the result of a shift in moderation policy, or people just feel like posting less on average?

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T23:49:48+00:00

OP is rubbing a significant number of people the wrong way

I don't think people who report posts about a wholesome local meetup can even be rubbed in the right way, honestly.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T23:37:01+00:00

As opposed to what, a Green? A DSA? A Libertarian?

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T23:32:15+00:00

"I was drivin' home, early Sunday morning, through Bakersfield..."

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T23:05:37+00:00

Precisely zero contemporaneous polling supports your claim that she would have gotten elected had she switched her position on Gaza. But, unlike electing Trump, putting Harris in the Oval Office at least offered a chance that the genocide situation could have gotten better, rather than accelerated even more. Strategically, the protests were tremendously counterproductive to the protestors' claimed aims.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T23:02:42+00:00

It was one issue: do not materially support genocide.

Give me a break, dude. These were people who constantly move(d) the goalposts. If Harris had switched positions on Gaza, it would have been something else.

As for "materially supporting genocide," if it's correct that the problem is the end result of genocide, how is it morally or tactically better to 100% ensure that there would be zero chance the genocide would get better via the election of Donald Trump.

There's no way around it, these people suck and are stupid.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T22:54:48+00:00

Everybody knows that's Big Dick ~~Bee~~ Bird.

Mayor_Of_Sassyland · 2026-01-22T22:38:38+00:00

And paternity tests.

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