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WeAllRideTheBus and reform at TriMet
One of the interesting developments of the past few weeks is that the organizational efforts of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon seem to be bearing fruit. TriMet’s recent scaled-back service cuts seem to take many of OPAL’s concerns into account (notwithstanding the warning that additional cuts may be back on the table if labor negotiations don’t…
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Shoup Weighs in on NW Parking Plan
A few years before starting this blog in 2005 I channeled my wonkery hours into serving as the lead neighborhood representative in trying to develop a parking plan for NW Portland. I still have the scars from when that effort crashed and burned. At the time I predicted that we had poisoned the well for…