It is so freaking cool to see Albina Vision Trust continue to execute their vision for the neighborhood.

Should be an interesting evening in the Joint Transportation Oversight Committee - this new entity, chaired by Senator Khanh Pham and Representative Mark Gamba - is bringing in ODOT's top brass to discuss status of the agency's megaprojects #orleg olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025I1/C...

Honored to support Oregon Families for Safe Streets this weekend in their World Day of Remembrance event. Every traffic fatality is a preventable, tragic policy failure, and every dollar spent on highway widening is a dollar not spent on safer roads, more sidewalks or better crosswalks.

yeah yeah, different colors of money and all, but worth being explicit that Oregon has easily spent $150m+ on consultants to plan for the proposed and unbuildable Rose Quarter Expansion and Oregon/Washington have spent nearly $300m on IBR consultants #orleg oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/17/l...

just one more lane bro!!!

We wish the massive ODOT shake up / project reassessment was primarily because we convinced legislators about the need for reform, instead of massive federal funding cuts and state legislative inertia. But It's still welcome news, and a huge opportunity for change. www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

"Now Governor Kotek has an opportunity to heal her wounded transportation legacy by picking an ODOT director that is humble enough to change the status quo and courageous enough to create a new one."

Good morning from the Oregon Transportation Commission! The gang's all here once again in public testimony - @1000oregon.bsky.social's @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social, Verde's @indinmkng.bsky.social, @cityobservatory.bsky.social, @chrissmith.us + @aortarail.org's Doug Allen all speaking

New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...

Hearing that ODOT Director Kris Strickler is stepping down effective Jan 2. (!!).

An enormous waste of taxpayer dollars to fund car infrastructure and auto-dependency

I-94 through Mpls-StPaul is such a disaster. I've lost friends over my position that it should be removed and replaced with better transportation, housing, business and recreation options. It inflicts unrelenting ugliness and tragedy on our communities. Do we intend to remain car-dependent victims?

This is tomorrow! Come hang out with Doug and Sarah at Bike Happy Hour Weds 11/12 Migration Brewing on N Williams Ave. They'll sit down w me at 5:30 for a convo followed by some Q & A. Show up earlier than that to hang with them! See you there!

ODOT & WSDOT have committed a little over $320 million so far on planning for the Interstate Bridge Replacement. #orleg #orpol #walege www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opin...

the cracks are showing! #orleg #orpol

full implementation would almost certainly cost less than the hundreds of millions we’ve spent just planning the rose quarter freeway expansion, let alone the ibr.

ODOT is hiring. Do you know anyone, @nomorefreewayspdx.com? oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SOR_Ex...

lol anyone looking for a job? oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SOR_Ex...

Fun panel!

well this looks awesome

NMF co-founder Joe Cortright @cityobservatory.bsky.social spoke to KGW about the latest updates on the Interstate Bridge Replacement - turns out the project is not doing so hot! Where’s the accountability from the Oregon legislature and the Governor? #orpol #orleg

The revolving door between highway consultants and agencies is truly maddening

ODOT’s lost their director for the Rose Quarter, twice lost the director of the Urban Mobility Office in the last year, and now lost the director of the IBR. #orpol #orleg

every headline over the last year out of ODOT has had this vibe #orleg #orpol

spending billions to widen a freeway to an airport is a particularly egregious way to spend public infrastructure money to burn the planet down. kudos to @awalkerinla.bsky.social for this run down on the LAX-pressway www.torched.la/air-traffic-...

Meanwhile, ODOT and regional policymakers and the Oregon Legislature continue to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars towards proposed freeway expansions that are also getting defunded instead of filling budget holes to replace bridges that’ll otherwise fall in the river when The Big One comes

"The Interstate “bridge replacement” gets marketed primarily as a project to serve cyclists and pedestrians. But its really about widening five miles of freeway, ostensibly to move 180,000 cars a day, something you’d never know by looking at project renderings." #orleg #orpol #walege #pdx

We'll be there.

Save the date! We're so excited about this upcoming livetaping of @opb.org's Stop Requested series, coming up on Tuesday October 28: literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...

"The Interstate Bridge replacement project has always believed it could bully the Coast Guard into approving a much lower fixed span, and its combination of arrogance and hubris have delayed, and once again threaten to kill this project." www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opin...

"There were no surprises with votes and everything went pretty much as planned by Democratic leaders, a sentence I haven’t been able to write about this legislative process since it began back in May." @jonathanmaus.bsky.social bringing the heat #orleg #orpol bikeportland.org/2025/09/30/d...

imagine what we could do with the highway trench through albina if we decided against adding more freeway lanes to it

another world is possible

great stuff from our friends in Minnesota! Which major highways should Oregon study turning into community boulevards?

This is a great short piece worth thinking about when it comes to transportation & urbanism. “We cannot optimise both proximity and mobility. Proximity and Mobility cannot be friends. We settle into one of two worlds: (a) high proximity, low mobility or (b) high mobility, low proximity.”

Show up at city hall tomorrow morning to support @pnwelcome.bsky.social’s Inner Eastside for All campaign. Build homes, not highways!

BikeLoud is planning a series of rides for Monday Sept 29 to Sunday Oct 5! Can YOU make next week a #WeekWithoutDriving? @americawalks.bsky.social @bikeportland.org @strongtownspdx.bsky.social @shift2bikes.bsky.social @ojta.org @nomorefreewayspdx.com @trecpdx.bsky.social @pnwelcome.bsky.social

So excited to share my newest project: Transit Talks! A video series where we talk about transit on transit. I’ll be interviewing elected and other community leaders on the bus! Follow 1000 Friends on Instagram so you don’t miss out. www.instagram.com/reel/DO9K4Mi...

No. via @humantransit.bsky.social

“It’s reckless to embark on this project before you know whether you’re going to get some or any of the billion dollars you’re counting on from the federal government” - @cityobservatory.bsky.social’s Joe Cortright quoted in the @columbian.com www.columbian.com/news/2025/se...

juxtaposition between the state planning to practically lay off every snowplow operator across the mountain passes while the interstate bridge jabronies steamroll forward with a ten billion dollar freeway expansion despite having no money in hand + no coherent design plans is breathtaking

Hope y'all saw the terrific reporting from Anthony Macuk and KGW News on the utter disaster that is the gajillion dollar Interstate Bridge Replacement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwq...

At the communities I’ve highways panel now. Opening statements about how freeways destroyed housing, displaced black communities and it is still happening.

My takeaway from this Sean Duffy letter to the Governor of Maryland is that there's no way in hell they are going to issue a Record of Decision for an Interstate Bridge Replacement that includes light rail. www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...

A thread today from #yimbytown conference. Walkability comes from both land use and transportation policy. Adding housing to walkable neighborhoods lets more people enjoy walkability, as does making streets better.

just sharing this for no reason

this is so embarrassing www.opb.org/article/2025...

We’re excited to be in Connecticut for @yimbytown.bsky.social but a welcome note from AASHTO at the train station is quite an ominous start

also possibly the most ambitious mass displacement / housing destruction event in American history - just impossible to wrap your brain around the scale of decades of consequences of the federal government paying cities to destroy so many homes of so many Black and brown communities