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

Routle - TriMet 03/04/2026 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

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

Steel Bridge Skatepark Moves Forward (images) www.nextportland.com/2026/02/26/s...

Build it. Fund it.

The new owner of Big Pink is getting very close to saying he wants to put an observation deck in the building www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

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.

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

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

Can’t park there m8

News Roundup: Moda Center, James Beard Public Market, 1847 Food Park, and more www.nextportland.com/2026/02/10/n...

@oregondot.bsky.social you know what you must do

In hindsight something like this was obviously happening. We get taxed to hell and back in Portland and see fuck all in return. This isn’t to say I don’t support the taxes that bring this money in. I do. It’s more to say that our government, at all levels, are terrible stewards of our tax dollars.

the portland housing bureau budget strategy circa 2022:

here's a longer form housing post, with three proposals for housing policy ideas portland could pursue in 2026 to increase housing production: urbanpdx.blog/a-2026-portl...

Portland is in the middle of a multiyear Central City zoning project, and despite hearing a desire from the community for more height, has decided decided to postpone that conversation to a future project. Meanwhile, Vancouver WA is just proposing to eliminate height limits in its core.

Making a version of the “follow your leader” image but instead of Hitler shooting himself its Bolsonaro in a hospital bed

Maybe they should build a new bridge instead of trying to do a gigantic freeway expansion that happens to have a bridge in it

I remember when Portland had better transit than Seattle. An absolute failure of leadership within my lifetime.

PSA: Do not hold the doors of a train open. It is your responsibility to be at the platform on time, and be ready for your stop when we get there. Don’t make it everyone else’s problem and delay the train because you couldn’t do one of those two things.

I am going to build a 10 story apartment in my neighborhood (zoned to 6 stories)

Why the hell did PPB think it was a good idea to enter our tracks in a 55 mph zone and not give us a heads up about it?

Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

ICE and CBP out of portland. I want national guard and cops following every one of these thugs around the city until they leave and never return

Assuming IBRP is using old CRC work to save the time and money, at this political moment, why can’t we just start from scratch? It’s not like the Trump administration is going to give us any money. We’re blue states. Why not use the few years we have to give us an infinitely better result?

I will forever contend that a lot of our worst freeway traffic in Portland is because we have too many on and offramps too close to each other, and the ramps have awful 60s-80s geometry with no merging space.

I was expecting like $10-12 billion. This is like unimaginably bad.

the real doom loop is service cuts to our transit system. if you cut frequency on an already infrequent system, it’s going to hurt ridership, which will lead to more cuts and fare hikes, which further hurt ridership. all of that of course adds future liabilities to the rest of the transport system

you ever notice how transit cuts in the biggest city in the state aren’t talked about as a political risk for the governor, despite being vastly worse for transit riders than an unnoticeable gas tax increase is for drivers?

lifting the state mandated cap on the trimet payroll tax should be a top short session priority for every portland legislator

My last hope is that these service cuts scares the state legislature into finding a way to fund transit. I don’t think that’ll happen, state legislators have made it pretty clear they have no interest in doing anything transportation related in the short session, but I have to have some hope.

democratic leaders in the senate acquiesced to republican demands to massively cut transit funding in order to avoid a walkout during the special session this summer and then had to shut down the legislature for a month anyways because of gorsek’s surgery. just a catastrophic failure of leadership

This lays at the feet of the state legislature. This is their fault for not doing the job we elected them to do.

Reminder that there’s a good reason for TriMet’s rule about large wagons not being allowed on trains. Took 3 minutes for a person in a wheelchair to get on my train because some homeless person was taking up the whole ADA section with their can wagon and refused to move.

I love when someone walks on the green line tracks when the 205 path is RIGHT THERE.

So glad the linchpin of our whole rail system is a 114 year old lift bridge.

82nd Ave

Tonight it’s 4 different people at once trespassing on the Banfield, all spread out.

I hate the heat and like mountains. Also West Coast best coast.

Another night, another guy trespassing on the Banfield, destroying the schedules of dozens of trains.

✨Auto in the ROW✨

cataclysmic cuts in transit service across trimet and the entire state of oregon are underway thanks to the failure of the 2025 legislature, and the republican repeal of the band aid transportation funding bill.

For my local transit nerds, here is a list of the remaining Type 1s and their status: 103 (in maintenance) 105 109 (broken) 111 (broken) 113 (in maintenance) 114 (broken) 115 (in maintenance) 120 (broken) 121 122 (in maintenance) 124 (in maintenance)

To be clear, if you ride transit you probably won’t see or experience any of this on any given day. I spend 8-11 hours a day on these trains so my exposure to it is way higher.

The most depressing thing about my job is constantly witnessing antisocial behavior that negatively affects everyone and knowing that there will never be any consequences for that behavior.

So, like, what are we supposed to do if this bill gets repealed? Just watch our state’s entire transportation system collapse? If the most half assed transportation funding bill can’t stand, then what hope is there of actually fixing things?