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binnig.bsky.social
Portlander. Transportation & housing hobbyist.
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tbh given how our mayoral election and our city council election went, i think the local takeaway for local politicians is TAKE PRIDE IN THE CITY AND RUN ON THAT

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Mamdani win an impressive vindication of the politics of SRO deregulation and single-stair reform.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In principle I kind of do think public transit should be free, in that the marginal cost of another passenger on an uncrowded bus is zero. In practice I think the marginal dollar for most transit systems (including Portland) is better put to increasing or sustaining service than to reducing fares.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Every additional home we build in Portland is one more home for a family who needs to access gender-affirming care. If Oregon wants to be a sanctuary for LGTBQ+ Americans, we simply must build more housing for everyone who wants (and needs) to call Oregon home. bsky.app/profile/wafo...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Finally heard someone pronounce “sine die” out loud and I don’t like it.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

The fact that mandating ground-level retail—which creates a glut of that product, thereby reducing its rental value—results in empty storefronts rather than storefronts full of lower-paying tenants is pretty interesting and appears to be common. www.axios.com/local/denver...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Wonder if any lawmakers will spend the political capital to strip out that 12-foot lane minimum thing someone snuck into the final page of the bill.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Felt like I fully activated as a Midwestern sleeper agent yesterday when I got 5-year-olds shucking corn and eating rhubarb pie.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Oregon transportation bill is out, and would prohibit reducing lane width on freight routes below 12 feet. (Maybe niche, but this is bad.)

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Six-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate Norman Thomas, in 1936:

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Today on Volts: parking is the "dark matter" of land use, invisibly making everything worse, but most municipalities continue to mandate minimum levels of it. WA state just passed some awesome parking reform & I dig into it with @citizen-cate.bsky.social & Alan Durning of @sightline.org.

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

My only real complaint about “Abundance” is that they wasted the opportunity to call the book “Appetite for Construction.”

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment