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"I’ve yet to see a better introduction to the workings of the city than the presentation given by the Public Works Bureaus —#Transportation, Water & Environmental Services — to the City Council last Thursday as part of Council’s Public Works work session. To anyone who wants a deeper understanding of #Portland, including budget issues, tuning into the first [6:05-]90min of this session is well worth your time."
https://www.youtube.com/live/ww_o-T7lZAo (from https://bikeportland.org/2025/01/27/city-council-reckons-with-infrastructure-392386 "we don't have enough [
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it's cute how they pretend we ride bikes and scooters and walk and stuff while they build and maintain gold-plated streets primarily for cars
Like if sixty or seventy people died from the water every year, would this presentation be exactly the same?
@enobacon@urbanists.social25% of the water+BES budget also goes to cars 
(stormwater)
"Reduced posted speeds on eleven (11) miles of streets" 
not even one mile for every six fatal crash victims.
Zimmerman "all public works should be under the same hood" 
pointy white hood, or car hood? (Is there a difference.)
straight from the mouths of #trafficEngineers, making cars go fast enough to kill you is expensive #VisionZero
![City Traffic Engineer saying "...expensive. They range anywhere from $300k for the flashing [yellow lights, to a million dollars for a full traffic signal]"](https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/113/909/791/853/095/792/original/6505406127502ce5.png "City Traffic Engineer saying \"...expensive. They range anywhere from $300k for the flashing [yellow lights, to a million dollars for a full traffic signal]\"")
why are we going to work so hard to be creative in funding the speed of cars but not able to be creative in slowing them down?
Dan Ryan, carrying the banner for Ted Wheelers everywhere.
@enobacon We have a city councillor who does that 