The car hatred never stops
I see that the deluded yet arrogant children in Portland's "transportation" bureau are now going to stop cars from driving on the perfectly good road through the Rose City Golf Course. Southbound traffic will still be allowed, but northbound will be strictly for the precious bikey people. The road-blocking sticks from hell are about to go up.
On and on and on go the microaggressions against families and working people. If you have a car and a life, you are not wanted in Portland. Get the hell out and make way for the hipsters on their two-wheelers.
This is the work of Mingus Mapps's minions, whom he defends tooth and nail. He does what the bureaucrats tell him. He's a follower, not a leader. That is why maybe he shouldn't be our next mayor.
To twist a quote from a Chris Rea song, “This is the path, the (bike) path to hell.” Because that is what they are basically doing. Turning any number of streets that were built for automobiles, and still in use by same, over to recreational cyclists.
ReplyDeleteAs if they haven’t done enough damage already by making the town confusing to navigate. Our narrow (and overused) roads can’t take much more of this stuff. But that won’t stop them.
They have to justify their existence. The only solution is to get in there and lay off most of them.
DeleteBeen on that street dozens and dozens of times. Never once saw a bike. The north end is a steep uphill slope. I doubt that it’s attractive to walkers.
DeleteBack in the day I used to do a lot of long bike rides. I especially loved doing the 205 bike path from Clackamas to Vancouver. I never had any issue finding quiet side streets to get out there from the NE side.
DeleteI don’t understand the attitude of the bike mafia who feel entitled to take over large swaths of the city streets. If you want serenity while biking, go out into the vastness of Oregon. Put the money into safety instead of bike lanes, and that will benefit everyone.
I live near here and hate this. I used to bike commute 12 miles a day for about 10 years so I'm not at all against bikes, but this is just stupid. Of course I filled out the survey and of course my thoughts were ignored. Now I can't ride a bike since my knee is messed up - I can barely walk. This chance is only going to displace traffic onto the nearby streets.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think the “transportation” people are being straight on this. No one benefits from this move.
ReplyDeleteHow about spending money on fixing Portland’s terrible potholed roads?
ReplyDeleteStupid arrogant dumb asses following blindly Agenda 30 or whatever it's called these days. Just like the old TV series the Prisoner, let's all stay confined to our little zone after we are given a number.
ReplyDeletewho is number 1?
DeleteTed Wheeler is Number Two. You are NUMBER SIX!
DeleteTake it from one who lived off SE 136th for a decade, The City doesn't believe anyone of consequence lives east of 39th. They've mostly left it all to rot. Things like this only accelerate the slide.
ReplyDeleteCaesar Chavez
DeleteNot true! If you live in Laurelhurst, you are important as far east as 45th.
DeleteIt's so glaringly obvious, too. Nobody's going to bike up that big hill. If they really wanted to have a project that was high impact for bikers and low impact for drivers, they'd flip it, allowing cars northbound and closing southbound traffic. Southbound volumes are about 30% lower than northbound. They knew what they were doing and they did it anyway.
ReplyDeleteThere are some really good lines in Hamlet that fit the political scene in Portland.
ReplyDeleteI guess there just aren’t enough roads to satisfy the need for carvenience, given that probably 90% or more of the paved road surfaces in Portland are still reserved for motor vehicles. All this bike angst is such a waste of energy.
ReplyDeleteNot as much of a waste of energy as driving 10 blocks in either direction to get around that golf course
DeleteI tire of the tail waging the dog.
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