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@arudwick.bsky.social
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Dad on a bike, Strong Towns PDX Eliot, Portland, Oregon

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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 3h
Banfield connection, 1962 vintageportland.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/b... Image of part of the destruction of Portland's working waterfront on the east side for I-5 - a move that helped encourage suburbanization and the reduction of the tax base in inner Portland. Memorial Coliseum already built
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Banfield Expressway connection, 1962
The Banfield Expressway is the section of I-84 that links I-5 with I-205. This aerial image shows the construction of the connection where it meets the Eastbank Freeway (I-5), also under constructi…
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Mike Perham @mike.perham.net · 4h
Kotek has no media presence. Dems need to learn to sell their vision. If they have no story to tell, the billionaire media will make one up and it will make the Repub sound like a viable alternative, even a partisan hack like Drazan.
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what “Success*” Looks Like: Hiding cost overruns cityobservatory.org/this-is-what... just wild that it isn't even hard to find things like this. Thanks for the reporting, @cityobservatory.bsky.social
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This is what “Success*” Looks Like: Hiding cost overruns – City Observatory
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Megan Ramey @bikabout.com · 27/09/2026
"Childhood joy and freedom are the fire in my 🔥work" I received the Alice Award from @thestreettrust.org and got to celebrate with many of the people who have supported and inspired me from leading a bike 🚲 🚂 to starting a safe routes to school program to the Hood River E-bike Library.
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Megan Ramey @bikabout.com · 26/09/2026
What a night 🎉🎉🎉 Receiving the Alice Award for my work in little Hood River, was an honor...especially alongside these two women. @thestreettrust.org
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Your Sewer System Is Probably Not Full www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026... I'm curious if anyone in Portland would find this useful... I have heard things about sewer capacity in the past limiting development in specific areas -- but not blocking individual developments
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Your Sewer System Is Probably Not Full | Strong Towns
What peak flow can teach us about building more housing with the infrastructure we already have.
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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My neighbor @arudwick.bsky.social has a staple in the parking strip. It’s great. I lock Biketown bikes up to it
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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
has anyone ever installed an actual bike rack at their house outside? like mounted into the asphalt? i don't really bike much but a lot of my friends do and visit and the lads will need someplace to lock their bikes up and our barn is kind of difficult to access
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Megan Ramey @bikabout.com · 27/09/2026
Halsey over I-84 has a 2-way bikeway now! The ride to Gateway Transit Center is little step closer to convenient and safe.
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TriMet’s Beaverton Transit Center is receiving a major makeover after nearly 40 years of daily use - TriMet News share.google/JZ6hyYQJfzmb... It feels like the real thing needed at this well connected spot is high rises
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TriMet’s Beaverton Transit Center is receiving a major makeover after nearly 40 years of daily use - TriMet News
Upgrades to TriMet’s busiest transit center are improving it for the years to come as a clean, reliable public transportation […]
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cities should be paying people to bike. Cities should be buying people e-bikes. Cities should be rewarding people for convincing neighbors to ride bikes. Every trip by bike is a net financial gain socially. And it compounds, the more people who do it.
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Bike Tarrytown @biketarrytown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come Ride the Bus With Us, October 4th. We're going to have fun. In conjunction with Livable Tarrytowns, our first Week Without Driving event ever. @nondriver.bsky.social biketarrytown.org/updates/2026...
Photograph of a city bus with an advertisement on the side: A bus is just a limo full of friends you haven't met yet.
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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
did you know that when the right wing attempts a cancel culture freak out, you can just stand your ground and clearly articulate your political opinion? Turns out people like left-wing politicians who don’t cower in the face of bad faith conservative attacks.
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others." Ben Franklin I like this quotation because it suggests possibilities for both the young and the old.
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
angieschmitt.substack.com/p/3-modest-s... "Short of that, we should AT LEAST stop purchasing [these dangerous modifications to cars] for public fleets. I saw these — bull bars — on Portland police cars
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3 modest safety half-measures we could take short of banning pickup trucks (lol)
There’s so much middle ground and low hanging fruit as far as reducing deaths and injuries caused by super large consumer vehicles.
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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
f) no, he's right
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 21/09/2026
Oregon's roads are in *terrible* shape - among the worst in the country! - and yet Governor Kotek, the Oregon Legislature and ODOT are still thinking about spending *billions* on a single hwy project to double the width of I-5 instead of maintaining our state's existing roads and bridges. enough!
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon has one of the nation’s largest funding gaps to meet road maintenance needs • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Beaver State has the second highest gap-to-expenditure ratio in the country, behind New York and tied with Connecticut.
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@tedlasso.bsky.social why is Ted sitting in the D in the opener this season? He should be in the L. He's moved one space per season except this season
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amb @amb.fyi · 19/09/2026
eliminating I-5 for a week seems to have caused remarkably minimal disruption to Portland's regional traffic flows. so why again do ODOT, Governor Kotek and the Oregon Legislature think we should spend three billion dollars (!) to literally double the width of lanes on I-5 through North Portland?
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bus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Building up would be cool, though the demand is already there for the bikeway at least. The major sacrifice here would be the car parking, it's one travel lane the whole length minus (with some turn lanes). Limited bike counts and my anecdata indicate it's high use.
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Rob Galanakis @robgalanakis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No idea if Shawne will win one of THREE open Tigard city council seats. But as someone who has run for office, and lost in a landslide, I can tell you that every donation made a difference, and sustained me for future action. I don't know what our future holds but I know we need more Shawnes.
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bethosborne.bsky.social @bethosborne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
DOTs are using models and tools that are half a century old and extremely limited while talented researchers are creating modern tools and opening the source code. Why shouldn’t this be the standard transportation model? understandingtransport.substack.com/p/connectome...
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Connectome v0.8.0
Ives Street is excited to announce the release of our travel demand modeling software, Connectome, under a license that makes it free to use for public agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutio...
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have to wonder if this media storm is actually helping Mitch Green’s campaign. You really couldn’t ask for clearer answers. Still wants to abolish the police in the long run. Doesn’t regret his posts at the time. Advocates for Portland Street Response. Rebukes silly calls for resignation.
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Will Councilor Mitch Green resign over his past comments about police? 'Absolutely not,' he says
YouTube video by KGW News
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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Blessings upon the Merc
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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also, we’re busy people, it’s literally their job to communicate with us, not the other way around. I appreciate that they have meet and greets and coffee, but responding to constituents emails is basic. I saw them kind of bragging about how much of the staff money they didn’t spend this year.
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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I appreciate fiscal responsibility, and I think supporting the causes they did was great. But if you’re not spending enough money to answer emails, then what are you doing?
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amb @amb.fyi · 18/09/2026
Wait i love this idea. Miami, Atlanta, Memphis, Saint Louis, Houston, so many would-be bustling cities that have been systemically disenfranchised and plundered by terrible state governments
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Mike Perham @mike.perham.net · 18/09/2026
Amazing editorial from the Merc staff
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amb @amb.fyi · 18/09/2026
new protected bike lanes on willamette boulevard are decadent and luxurious, kudos @pbotinfo.bsky.social
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 18/09/2026
City Observatory continues to keep up with the "carmageddon" beat - turns out, shutting down I-5 doesn't seem to be having hardly *any* impact on traffic congestion across the region. Why again does the Oregon Legislature want to spend over $3 billion to double the width of the RQ freeway? #orleg
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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As a major proponent of the charter reform and a politically savvy D3 constituent I would say that constituent services and relations don't get a passing grade. I'll post my experiences in the thread. Also, I have met and donated to all 3 reps. www.wweek.com/news/2026/09...
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Portlanders’ Feelings of Representation by the City Council Are Returning to Their Dismal Baseline
A higher proportion of District 3 and 4 voters feel represented by at least one member of City Council than voters in the rest of the city.
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Nic Cota @nictrieslife.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Making cities green is actually pretty easy if you stop prioritizing this one thing…
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This post may be the most effective argument right now for letting public transit wither. It may not make sense to you, but it feels right to many, many people. So in a short new post, I talk through what's going on here, and how to engage with it. humantransit.org/2026/09/the-...
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Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Replacing public transit autonomous vehicles would be neither fair nor effective even if they were widely available and safe. I would have thought this obvious but it's good to have the arguments spelled out clearly.
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bus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Taking the 24 which uses the 405 bridge southbound, traffic is not bad at all and the right lanes to 30 are completely clear. #teardowni5
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Carrie Leonard, PhD @carrieleonard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm finding the odot confusion(?) over the lack of carmageddon with the I-5 closure very funny. Induced demand anyone?
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 15/09/2026
We get the traffic congestion that we plan for. So why is Oregon spending tens of billions of dollars to add multiple miles of new lanes of freeway through the Rose Quarter and across the Columbia River? Every mile we build just ends up in more motorists polluting, stuck in gridlock.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Met the engineer at PBOT that made the blue lights that detect bikes so the streetlights change to green faster, felt like a celeb sighting fr 🚦✨ Our city employees are so cool we are so lucky!
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
usa.streetsblog.org/2026/09/14/w... nice article @keawilson.bsky.social sorry for your loss, sounds incredibly painful and I'm glad that you were able to share it
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Where I've Been — Streetsblog USA
How becoming a caregiver for a person with terminal illness changed the way I think about transportation reform.
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Portland Bureau of Transportation @pbotinfo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
School’s back — and neighborhood greenways are helping kids and families get to class safely and on time Driving across a neighborhood greenway? Wait for kids to pass.
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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 14/09/2026
funny how traffic just evaporates when freeways are shut down
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John wasiutynski @jwashski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can confirm, morning driving was no big deal. Induced demand is real
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
frustrated with drivers turning right *incorrectly* on NE Broadway? I got this update from @pbotinfo.bsky.social staff: We have a mitigation project - that recently got funded - and will be on the ground next summer.
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
bricksneedmortar.substack.com/p/leaving-an... smart take: if the city was trying to encourage more transit use for a month- targetting city employees with a year of free transit is probably lower ROI than targetting low-income downtown workers
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Leaving an Opportunity on The Table - Why Are We Addressing Issues in a Vacuum
One Way Portland Could Meet its Climate Goals while Spurring Economic Development
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 13/09/2026
posting a knitted post appreciation post
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026... do your kids know other kids / adults around them- some interesting data points in here
strongtowns.org
The Missing Village: How to Build Neighborhoods Where Kids Thrive | Strong Towns
What communities and families can do to give children more independence, stronger relationships, greater responsibility, and a place to belong.
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Michelle DuBarry @dubarrypie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When you experience a catastrophic crash, it is a secondary trauma to learn that auto insurance does not protect you from financial ruin. When my 1yo son was killed in 2010, the liability minimum in OR was $25,000 (still is!) and our health insurer was first in line to collect the settlement.
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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Did you know BikeLoud awards a quarterly Mini-Grant?🎉🚲❤️ BikeLoud members can apply for one-time seed funding up to $500 for projects that aim to increase biking in PDX. Share your ideas: tactical urbanism? a survey? fun ride? Applications due Friday 9/18 more info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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BikeLoud Mini Grant Program
To facilitate action among our general membership, BikeLoud aims to catalyze bike-related programs and ideas from the BikeLoud community through one-time seed grants. Topics of interest include, but a...
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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Okay, this is fascinating. City councilor office budgets are essential councilor slush funds. It’s not entirely bad. They have solved some annoying little problems around town www.oregonlive.com/watchdog/202...
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Disco ball, makeup artist and taxpayer dollars: Inside Portland councilors' spending choices
City councilors steered public dollars to travel, fundraisers, nonprofits, pet projects — and other surprises — as budget cuts mounted.
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Chris Smith @chrissmith.us · 13/09/2026
It was initially covered in a thin layer of sealer, so it had been slowly revealed as cars drive over it! 2/2
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