Anders Hart
@andershart.bsky.social
Portland-based transportation planner Urbanism, economics, and ecology
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I'm mostly concerned about the additional VMT imparted by the cost and ease of its use, and the shift in infrastructure investment and development encouraged by that change. I'm not sure the city is up to managing that challenge, let alone the state.
February 5, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I'm mostly concerned about the additional VMT imparted by the cost and ease of its use, and the shift in infrastructure investment and development encouraged by that change. I'm not sure the city is up to managing that challenge, let alone the state.
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In a statement to BikePortland this morning, Councilor Mitch Green called a bill in the legislature that aims to preempt local regulation of robotaxis, "appalling."
bikeportland.org/2026/02/05/a...
bikeportland.org/2026/02/05/a...
A showdown looms over robotaxis on Portland streets
It might not be a smooth ride for Waymo.
bikeportland.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
In a statement to BikePortland this morning, Councilor Mitch Green called a bill in the legislature that aims to preempt local regulation of robotaxis, "appalling."
bikeportland.org/2026/02/05/a...
bikeportland.org/2026/02/05/a...
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Hello wonderful neighbors! Our next happy hour is TOMORROW, February 5th at Migration brewing on Williams from 6-8PM! We are excited to announce that we will be joined by members of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability who are working on the Central City Code Amendments project!
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February 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Hello wonderful neighbors! Our next happy hour is TOMORROW, February 5th at Migration brewing on Williams from 6-8PM! We are excited to announce that we will be joined by members of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability who are working on the Central City Code Amendments project!
Bill in the OR legislature to prevent local governments from regulating or taxing autonomous vehicles, sponsored by Rep McLain, Sen Meek. olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...
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HB4085 2026 Regular Session - Oregon Legislative Information System
olis.oregonlegislature.gov
February 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Bill in the OR legislature to prevent local governments from regulating or taxing autonomous vehicles, sponsored by Rep McLain, Sen Meek. olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...
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I'm at a legislative town hall,
and Sen. Frederick is still gung ho about IBR despite the ballooning costs. Rep. Sanchez voted for bonding for the project but supposedly wasn't happy about it. 🙄
and Sen. Frederick is still gung ho about IBR despite the ballooning costs. Rep. Sanchez voted for bonding for the project but supposedly wasn't happy about it. 🙄
January 31, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I'm at a legislative town hall,
and Sen. Frederick is still gung ho about IBR despite the ballooning costs. Rep. Sanchez voted for bonding for the project but supposedly wasn't happy about it. 🙄
and Sen. Frederick is still gung ho about IBR despite the ballooning costs. Rep. Sanchez voted for bonding for the project but supposedly wasn't happy about it. 🙄
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Tomorrow! Emergency protest in solidarity with Minneapolis and in memory of Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE/CBP! 3pm Salmon Street Springs.
January 25, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Tomorrow! Emergency protest in solidarity with Minneapolis and in memory of Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE/CBP! 3pm Salmon Street Springs.
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It took me 5m to call 2 senators & leave a voicemail saying they should oppose any bill that would appropriate money for the extrajudicial killing of Americans
(this appropriations bill is like a week away fyi)
(this appropriations bill is like a week away fyi)
January 24, 2026 at 9:32 PM
It took me 5m to call 2 senators & leave a voicemail saying they should oppose any bill that would appropriate money for the extrajudicial killing of Americans
(this appropriations bill is like a week away fyi)
(this appropriations bill is like a week away fyi)
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ODOT’s budget is fucked. They could either stop spending hundreds of millions on a doomed freeway expansion that is billions of dollars away from completion or raid the $15m a year program for sidewalks near elementary schools. Guess which Dems are choosing #orpol
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
Lawmakers eye Safe Routes to School funding to backfill maintenance hole
They wouldn't come for the kids' money, would they?
bikeportland.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:28 AM
ODOT’s budget is fucked. They could either stop spending hundreds of millions on a doomed freeway expansion that is billions of dollars away from completion or raid the $15m a year program for sidewalks near elementary schools. Guess which Dems are choosing #orpol
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
bikeportland.org/2026/01/22/l...
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They're arresting kids who need medical care in Oregon.
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
They're arresting kids who need medical care in Oregon.
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ICE must be abolished. The work of our time is to tear down the system that built it and remake it into one that embraces and designs systems that include all people from all places. This work will be done, because the alternative is unbearable.
January 8, 2026 at 5:46 AM
ICE must be abolished. The work of our time is to tear down the system that built it and remake it into one that embraces and designs systems that include all people from all places. This work will be done, because the alternative is unbearable.
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ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.
January 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM
ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.
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"The estimated price tag more than doubled from $6 billion to $13.6 billion, but staff told a bistate panel Dec. 15 it didn’t have new numbers."
The estimated price tag more than doubled from $6 billion to $13.6 billion, but staff told a bistate panel Dec. 15 it didn’t have new numbers.
Interstate Bridge Staff Hid Information About Ballooning Cost of Giant Highway Project
Nigel Jaquiss
www.wweek.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:43 AM
"The estimated price tag more than doubled from $6 billion to $13.6 billion, but staff told a bistate panel Dec. 15 it didn’t have new numbers."
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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No War for Oil! US out of Venezuela! Rally today SW 10th and Burnside 3:30 pm
January 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
No War for Oil! US out of Venezuela! Rally today SW 10th and Burnside 3:30 pm
Have you called your reps yet?
Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Is there actually a benefit to leaving a VM now vs getting a staffer on Monday? Can do both but just curious
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Have you called your reps yet?
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You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
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Hoping @tinakotek.bsky.social sees this
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Hoping @tinakotek.bsky.social sees this
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Meanwhile, in Oregon (which also had a rare, hard to get congestion pricing permit from feds) ODOT failed so hard at standing up the pgm that the governor had it banned it in statute.
High taxes are a scapegoat for OR's stagnation: the real problem is bad governance and the uncertainty it begets.
High taxes are a scapegoat for OR's stagnation: the real problem is bad governance and the uncertainty it begets.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Meanwhile, in Oregon (which also had a rare, hard to get congestion pricing permit from feds) ODOT failed so hard at standing up the pgm that the governor had it banned it in statute.
High taxes are a scapegoat for OR's stagnation: the real problem is bad governance and the uncertainty it begets.
High taxes are a scapegoat for OR's stagnation: the real problem is bad governance and the uncertainty it begets.
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Given that we just experienced major landslides in the state that have taken important state routes out of service, and that we have more or less defunded important transit networks, I will be interested in supporting any primary challengers willing to fight for the transportation funding we deserve
Repealing the controversial bill could deprive Republicans of a powerful campaign issue in an election year.
Confronted by a Grassroots Backlash, Democrats Consider Repealing Unpopular Gas Tax Hike
Nigel Jaquiss
www.wweek.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Given that we just experienced major landslides in the state that have taken important state routes out of service, and that we have more or less defunded important transit networks, I will be interested in supporting any primary challengers willing to fight for the transportation funding we deserve
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Centrist Dems have enabled austerity by ceding ground to reactionaries in the state legislature, and we're worse off for it. If you have a plan to win and a vision for a budget that invests in our communities by actually taxing those with the ability to pay, then let's talk about your campaign.
December 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Centrist Dems have enabled austerity by ceding ground to reactionaries in the state legislature, and we're worse off for it. If you have a plan to win and a vision for a budget that invests in our communities by actually taxing those with the ability to pay, then let's talk about your campaign.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
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things have become so dire at odot re: funding that we now legit have a shot at defunding this terrible stupid freeway expansion we've been fighting for over eight years.
now's your chance - send an email to the oregon transportation commission. No More Freeways made it easy - deadline is tuesday
now's your chance - send an email to the oregon transportation commission. No More Freeways made it easy - deadline is tuesday
Action Alert!
Join No More Freeways in demanding that the Oregon Transportation Commission vote to redirect Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion funding to serve ODOT's myriad other needs.
Testimony due by Tuesday - RT and help us spread the word!
www.nomorefreewayspdx.com/option3
Join No More Freeways in demanding that the Oregon Transportation Commission vote to redirect Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion funding to serve ODOT's myriad other needs.
Testimony due by Tuesday - RT and help us spread the word!
www.nomorefreewayspdx.com/option3
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
things have become so dire at odot re: funding that we now legit have a shot at defunding this terrible stupid freeway expansion we've been fighting for over eight years.
now's your chance - send an email to the oregon transportation commission. No More Freeways made it easy - deadline is tuesday
now's your chance - send an email to the oregon transportation commission. No More Freeways made it easy - deadline is tuesday