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It feels like 6 lifetimes ago

Oregon legislators who prioritized highway expansions and stadium rehab money while gutting mass transit and safe routes money sure look like stooges in the middle of a huge gas crisis.

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas!

Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social.

PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

Transportation advocates say lawmakers 'betrayed public trust' with budget bill votes Dozens of nonprofits from across Oregon will not let lawmakers forget this betrayal.

"By slashing this budget, the state is knowingly making neighborhoods less safe for the very people who funded these programs." - Steph Noll, Oregon Trails Coalition

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Guest opinion: 'Bikeable Portland' plan will get more people biking A skeptic shares why he's come around to the idea.

"Bikes are an incredible product, and Portland has a good network to use them on, but we need to help people learn how to use the product on that [greenway] network."

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Apparently “transportation” only means “cars” to ODOT

Rising gas prices hate this one weird urban trick.

a progressive income tax? sorry kiddo, that betrays a "utopian" desire that can only ever end in tragedy. but a relentless program of constant wars, occupations, and genocides fast and slow, for oil, land, and fulfilling the commands of a blood-hungry god? thats just Adults in the Room doing Policy

Adam Savage Rebuilds His Stolen Bicycle! YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

Highly recommend Adam Savage’s latest video!

He spent years using a bike as his primary transit in NYC and understands the freedom it brings. Nice to see a prominent voice validating that we don't need 4,000lb boxes just to navigate a city.

Let me re-introduce myself. And why our campaign is doing things differently.

This guy gets it.

Announcing a 2nd season of Heated Rivalry already?

When suburban friends visit their city friends and they discuss how they're going out to dinner.

Lord I see what you have done for others

Example #4339287 of living a car brained society

Sadly it’s not just the Midwest anymore. I’m in Oregon and get packages from California routed to somewhere on the east coast fairly regularly at this point

Wait what? Michael Flynn’s brother, Charles Flynn, is a Senior Advisor at Peter Thiel’s Palantir?? h/t @nadja72638243.bsky.social on X… 1/

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

I had to read that twice

I’ve been never been a bigger fan of cholesterol than I have been for the last year

Hey! Tomorrow (Saturday Feb 14) at 11:15 Eastern US time I'll be talking to my friend, author/videoer John Green on the annual Project for Awesome livestream, raising money for great charities! You can get perks through donating, including meteorites I've sent them. See here:

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image from today's hearing

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

The bills I'm tracking this legislative session 12 bills worth watching.

The Oregon legislative session is in full swing. Here are 15 transportation-related bills I'm tracking (and one media-related one).

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Reminder:

We don't *have* to give all the urban space to motorists. It's a choice.

Monday Roundup: Waymo, light rail tax, sneckdowns, and more The most notable stories from the past seven days.

The most notable transportation/urbanism/bicycling stories on the web from the past week...

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No Kings includes Draft Kings

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople