Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We just don't have that great of a track record in this country of adapting our infrastructure in reaction to transportation technologies very thoughtfully (and haven't for a century). 040
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don't think that autonomous vehicles should be banned, just well taxed and regulated, but I *am* concerned that none of our levels of government will be able to effectively respond to the additional VMT I believe will result from the low cost and ease of its use on full deployment. 130
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Luckily, the empty field to the west is getting 200+ units on it, and the empty field to the north was finally put up for sale by the family that has held on to it for decades. archive.is/202511202339... properties.capacitycommercial.com/1634749-salearchive.is 030
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ballot exhaustion in a race with 1 D vs 3 competitive Rs who oppose RCV will do that to ya 133
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Forgive the YouTube video link, but Ray Delahanty (former Portland-area transportation planner) made a video last year on the interaction between regional transportation plans, travel demand models, and mode share goals, with Metro used as an example: youtu.be/NgJ998KHBpc?... (3/3)youtu.beI’m Not Saying Traffic Engineering Is Junk Science ButYouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd 110
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026but we have a habit of reacting to roads with high throughput or roads with unrealistic projections of high throughput with added lanes, rather than considering transit priority, our active transportation network, or zoning changes to reduce trip lengths. (2/3) 100
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Sorry for the poor resolution on the graph— I lifted it from Ben Fryback who has them in full here: bsky.app/profile/bfry... I don't know exactly what inputs cause WashCo's traffic planners to produce projects that add so many more lanes than other local jurisdictions in the metro area, (1/3) 100
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Not that you have direct control over this (and the Century Blvd. Extension is far past the point of no return), but @orobharris.bsky.social why must our locality spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lane adding road projects instead of, say, installing sidewalks to our public schools and parks? 100
Reposted by Bavadinamb @amb.fyi · 12/08/2026Nothing short of a five alarm fire - to which the legislature is responding with “hmmm well let’s give ODOT three billion dollars to widen a freeway into the backyard of Harriet Tubman Middle School” 06720
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The creator claims that in of one of Hank's recent videos he read directly from language model output, but that information is from a viral tweet clipping a section of his video out of context. In the context of the video, it's clear that he was responding to his interview guest, not reading from AI 080
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I don't know any details except that I remember that an advisory measure on the plan failed narrowly in May 2024, but it looks like they're moving forward with another vote on it in November— wilsonvillespokesman.com/2026/06/03/w...wilsonvillespokesman.comWilsonville to try to move forward with Town Center urban renewal despite complications - Wilsonville SpokesmanThe May election may not be the only time this year Wilsonville voters will weigh in on the use of urban renewal in town. During a work session Monday, June […] 111
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026There are a couple, and the state party might go for them if a replacement process becomes possible— they just all ran for governor in the primary instead of the senate 030
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026They had a bill ready to expand the UGB to include a plot of land for the NSTC EUV lithography facility, but that went to Albany instead 010
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026It's not 1:1 but there's this tool! Where anything green or blue is within 15 minutes by bike. Adding the general 'Public schools' destination breaks it for some reason, and it's missing a couple of the other amenities listed, but there are a bunch more available too. close.city?x=-122.67887... 120
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Yeah This frame from the MSNOW livestream is real, although who put up the fence and then took it down again after 45 minutes, and why, I'm not sure of In years past they've put a fence up around the reflecting pool at around this time for the 4th of July fireworks, so it could be related to that 010
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It is essentially a political cartoon, considering that it's AI 100
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026There was also a picture going around [2] which was from 2023 and related to 4th of July fireworks at the reflecting pool, which would make sense to explain the fencing this year as well [3]. [2] www.reddit.com/r/washington... [3] freedom250.org/celebration/... 000
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Some fencing was put up at that location for 45 minutes yesterday [1], but the above image is definitely AI. [1] www.youtube.com/live/Gngep8Y... 100
Reposted by Bavadinben fryback @bfryback.bsky.social · 24/06/2026just found out about this. 200 million to grade seperate some suburban arterial railroad crossing. sure whatever. we've completely lost the plot. there's no way the cost/benefit works out on this tualatinlife.com/featured/cit...tualatinlife.comCity Council looks at potential $200 million Tualatin-Sherwood Road project - Tualatin LifeIn an effort to curb traffic, Tualatin city councilors gave engineers the go-ahead for further investigation related to raising Tualatin-Sherwood Road over Boones Ferry Road and the railroad. At their... 2101
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026and potentially ones that human drivers aren't subject to, because they aren't machines. This should be enforced by a fine heavy enough that Google would notice it and with repeated violations, removal of their permit to drive autonomously. 000
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026This is along the lines of what I meant by 'proposals for regulation and or taxation' in my original reply. If we were to allow them within our city, we should require them to actually follow the laws that drivers often don't (the speed limit, parking in bike lanes, driving in bus only lanes), 100
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Again, though, not claiming that the tech is necessarily ready now, just that it has significantly improved and has scaled to tens of millions of rides across a dozen cities in recent years, and is likely to continue to improve. 100
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026See my reply agreeing that they should disallow the product now, but yeah, I set myself up for this response :P I understand having doubts about it, but the safety data looks fairly significant to me, and the tech isn't 'a few years away', miles driven autonomously have skyrocketed in the past two. 100
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026(Not to say anything against exercising the council's authority and jurisdiction on the matter at this moment.) 010
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026No data behind this on hand, but if it isn't safer right now, it will be a few years from now, and it'll be worth investing in argumentation and policy proposals for regulation and or taxation beyond that for human drivers, to get ahead of the curve on the issue. 320
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 07/06/202675,000 more ballots estimated from LA County as well now, but I don't know if turnout predictions were already expecting that 000
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It'll be interesting to see what those final dropboxes look like (hopefully) tomorrow. Steyer probably still has a chance if they're a significantly better than these regular dropboxes, but how much better depends on the other counties. 110
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Not that it makes that big of a difference. It's also worth noting that the Prop 50 election preliminary estimation was actually a slight overprojection of the final count. The elections are so different that something like that shouldn't happen here either though. 020
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The only thing I'm not sure about is whether in '22 there were some votes posted after the election day release but before the preliminary estimate, so not counted in either (this year they released a ballot count update with the preliminary estimate). 110
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The final vote count was 21% higher than the preliminary estimate plus the E+1 ballot count, no? 1,620,593 / ((400,000 + 680 + 105 + 300) + 938,000) www.lavote.gov/docs/rrcc/ne... Although I don't see the E+1 count reported by the county clerk, just this: nitter.net/CID_Research... 010
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It wouldn't have impacted me on Tuesday when I left downtown except that GTFS failed for some reason and I missed three trains going west which Trimet's tracker said didn't exist 010
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It's gonna be super close and Nithya Raman might still make it, fwiw. Same trend as here— early votes are counted first and are most conservative. 060
Reposted by BavadinFischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026this is a dramatic expansion of apartment zoning in vancouver, in line with pre-wwii zoning codes that allowed apartments on a large portion of residential lots 4409
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Fleet Week: Trusted TriMet GTFS data that said the nearest train west was at Hollywood, only to miss a Red line train at Pioneer Square by 5 seconds and then another Red line and a Blue line while walking towards Old Town to catch the train before the downtown crowd. 000
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026On the other hand— Sunset: www.seallp.com/work/multi-f... Field West of BTC: www.bizjournals.com/portland/new... Field North of BTC: www.loopnet.com/Listing/3780...seallp.comWest Village | Residential Development Beaverton Oregon —Scott Edwards ArchitectureA residential community supporting pedestrian-oriented streets, public plazas, and transit use for residents and commuters by Scott Edwards Architecture 020
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This, along with a cheap plan to improve streetcar reliability with TSP and the removal of parking next to the tracks would be a great investment 111
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Gas *should* be this expensive, to account for the externalities of burning it (to the climate and human health). It's only that the increase should be by taxes, not by an illegal war of aggression. Then, we should spend those taxes on making our state a better place to live in. 020
Reposted by BavadinRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This morning the Oregon Transportation Commission voted to approve a $3.6 billion increase in the budget for the planned I-5 expansion between Washington and Oregon. This includes dollars sourced from both states, but full funding for the project has still not been identified. 3373
Reposted by Bavadinamb @amb.fyi · 20/05/2026choosing to celebrate this as the precise moment that the 2025 legislative session’s attempt to pass a package is officially dead and over, may we never speak of it again, tomorrow let’s start with a clean slate and ensure next year we get sidewalks and buses and pothole fixes on every street 3678
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Pretty much oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/07/o...oregoncapitalchronicle.comOregon Gov. Kotek calls for repeal of transportation funding package she championed • Oregon Capital ChronicleKotek is asking the state Legislature to instead redirect existing transportation funds to core programs, come up with a new plan for 2027. 020
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Worth noting on the matter of Oregon's Measure 120 that Democrats have essentially given up on the transportation package, and hope to try again in 2027. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/07/o...oregoncapitalchronicle.comOregon Gov. Kotek calls for repeal of transportation funding package she championed • Oregon Capital ChronicleKotek is asking the state Legislature to instead redirect existing transportation funds to core programs, come up with a new plan for 2027. 121
Reposted by BavadinJohn Horvick @horvick.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Mt Hood snowpack melted to zero today. 141
Reposted by Bavadinamb @amb.fyi · 13/05/2026latest IBR news: Tolls as high as $4.70 High tolls expected to deter traffic to ~30% lower than today, but new bridge still built to ~twice current size Tons of I-205 diversion expected Only $1.7B raised from these high tolls Even w/tolls, still *$2.5 BILLION* budget gap just for IBR phase 1 55115
Bavadin @bavadin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I started getting service in the tunnel on AT&T maybe two weeks ago. They've had coverage for Verizon since 2016, so maybe during the closure last summer they made some upgrades and expanded it, or something like that 020
Reposted by Bavadinamb @amb.fyi · 09/05/2026Seeing all the content of people in los angeles overjoyed about the new subway extension and it's hard not to get mad that every city in america isn't rapidly building more transit and having ribbon cutting ceremonies every month. just a colossal failure of policy priorities and state capacity 3566
Reposted by Bavadinbus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social · 04/05/2026ODOT is closing the I-5 south ramp at the Rose Quarter for over a month in September. Many of us have suggested a low-cost RQ I-5 "improvement" project could/should include ramp closures. Imagine if we studied how drivers navigated this temporary closure and the impact to the area. 3205
Reposted by BavadinJonathan @jakz92.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Logical extensions of this system could include the SW line, a Powell line, and a 2-mile extension of the north-south trunk on MLK to Alberta. These three lines could all meet at an OHSU transit center, allowing fast transfers between SW, SE, and NE. 193
Reposted by Bavadinamb @amb.fyi · 26/04/2026It’s theoretically possible self-driving cars could be designed and governed in a way to support a transition into an alternative to car dependency in American cities. But would anyone bet money those companies and their army of lobbyists and our feckless governments are gonna let that happen? 0173
