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Big pipe at 99% full

Time to go swimming!

Screenshot of the big pipe tracker showing it at 100% capacity.

Poop river

Shocking considering that of all of the things that were never gonna happen this was the most never gonna happen of all of them

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South Waterfront is across a huge empty plot of dirt from where people actually live and visit. I never said Tacoma is the worst offender on the Orange Line, just that it also has bad placement. Doesn’t matter whose fault Milwaukie/Main is, it’s poorly placed relative to the bus transit center.

If you hit a concrete bike lane barrier or drive in the bike lane you are, by definition, breaking the law. It’s easy to not wreck a car on a curb by simply not hitting the curb.

And sure, you could take the bus and transfer to the orange line, but all of the bus lines just go into downtown and onto the transit mall like the orange line, so why bother with a transfer?

South Waterfront/Moody is disconnected from the South Waterfront. Bybee is just far enough from Reed College and Westmoreland to not be useful. Tacoma is across the highway from Sellwood. Milwaukie/Main was for some reason put halfway across downtown Milwaukie from the bus transit center.

It’s really amazing how many stops on the orange line are so close to serving important locations but are just far enough away to not actually serve those locations.

Portland has had a serious run of Standard White Guy mayors and sometimes you can’t tell which one it is if you only catch a glance

I thought this was Keith Wilson as I was scrolling, but when I looked again I realized it’s actually Ted Wheeler

If y’all don’t get this one I will be so disappointed

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Car smacked into the trailing car of a train and derailed it

To be clear that wasn’t my train I don’t operate the red line

Steel Bridge Skatepark Moves Forward (images) Development is moving forward for the Steel Bridge Skatepark, a 63,000 square foot skatepark being built by the City of Portland.

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Expo Future | Metro The Portland Expo Center has a complex history that needs acknowledgment. It also requires a long-term plan for financial sustainability. The Expo Future project exists to address these issues.

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But in his quest to get more bodies in Big Pink, Swickard is hoping to capitalize on the premium views available from many of its 42 floors: Cascade Mountains. The Willamette. Clear into Washington state. Portland City Grill, on floor 30, is often packed with patrons taking in the panoramas. “Where Big Pink sits, it has the best view corridors of any building in the state,” Swickard said. Swickard envisions sightseers and tourists – and not just office tenants – as key demographics for the new Big Pink. He is bringing in consultants from New York and Los Angeles to reimagine a critical downtown stretch, he said. “If we have it our way, Big Pink will be a destination for the city,” he said Tuesday. “If we’re successful, Big Pink will essentially be open for everyone.”

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I still can’t get over that the Save Lloyd people put Sears in their “plan.” How am I supposed to take you seriously if you’re planning for *Sears* to make a comeback?

Heard Hips Don’t Lie by Shakira for the first time in a long time and it’s hilarious how much louder Shakira is mixed in over the entire rest of the song. When her vocals come in they just completely drown out everything else.

For sure. Housing the the linchpin of this whole thing. Without it, whatever replaces the mall will probably face the same fate. But I think with a few thousand new people living in the area, as the current *actual* redevelopment plan calls for, the whole neighborhood will flourish.

It’s not like we can’t have a nice retail district once the mall is gone. We can return to what once was; a lively space where people spend their free time. It’s just that it can’t be a mall, that won’t work anymore. It will have to look different, that’s the reality of the situation.

Change is inevitable. The world is always changing around us. Nostalgia is nice, but we can’t let it poison our brains from accepting reality. Lloyd has been called a dead mall since before I moved here a decade ago and its status has only gotten worse since then. There is no saving that mall.

The Save Lloyd thing is the perfect microcosm of the NIMBY disease that plagues our cities. Just a complete inability to accept change even if the alternative is stagnation and decay. Hell, they include a Sears in this “plan,” a company with only 5 extant stores left.

I love da bus and da MAX

What I’m waiting for is for people to learn how to let passengers exit a train before trying to board.

RIP to this sign. Killed by a driver doing the exact opposite of what the sign indicates.

Can’t park there m8

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News Roundup: Moda Center, James Beard Public Market, 1847 Food Park, and more A concept rendering of the proposed exterior upgrades to the Moda Center. State leaders unveiled a bill that would fund renovations to the Moda Center “in order to keep the Portland Trail Bla…

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