Does brick or stone street paving increase the calming effect?
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Does brick or stone street paving increase the calming effect?
I worry that the ST approach will slowly get us scattered ADUs and maybe a duplex or two, when many cities have years of work ahead to add real density to create a walkable city with access to jobs, stores and schools for the majority of residents. We won't get there with gently persuasion.
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I worry that the ST approach will slowly get us scattered ADUs and maybe a duplex or two, when many cities have years of work ahead to add real density to create a walkable city with access to jobs, stores and schools for the majority of residents. We won't get there with gently persuasion.
From what I’ve deduced, ”Belgian block” is a style of paving, using locally available stone cut in a certain rectangular shape , laid a certain way.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
From what I’ve deduced, ”Belgian block” is a style of paving, using locally available stone cut in a certain rectangular shape , laid a certain way.
Vote Jennifer for state legislature!
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Vote Jennifer for state legislature!
Emails on their sites.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Emails on their sites.
Sent message as my senators don’t list a phone number (Oregon)
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sent message as my senators don’t list a phone number (Oregon)
Sorry to hear about your travails!
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sorry to hear about your travails!
Back when headlights were a standardized, "sealed beam" unit, you could regulate their location and light pattern. Now they're built in customs, and no way to even track aiming (in your eyes?). Are their ANY federal requirements?
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Back when headlights were a standardized, "sealed beam" unit, you could regulate their location and light pattern. Now they're built in customs, and no way to even track aiming (in your eyes?). Are their ANY federal requirements?
It sounds like the best deal for the city would be to approve the settlement, which has a lot of compromises vs. what the law could require. Thanks to Scott Kocher for all the work he's done on this!
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
It sounds like the best deal for the city would be to approve the settlement, which has a lot of compromises vs. what the law could require. Thanks to Scott Kocher for all the work he's done on this!
Aw, I thought perhaps there was a rural version in the back of pickup trucks!
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Aw, I thought perhaps there was a rural version in the back of pickup trucks!
So, it's not a "trunk and treat"
it's a "TRUCK and treat" ?
it's a "TRUCK and treat" ?
November 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
So, it's not a "trunk and treat"
it's a "TRUCK and treat" ?
it's a "TRUCK and treat" ?
In my 30 years of advocacy in PDX for walkers, little has changed. Across the country, "Traffic Engineering standards"
are the problem. Cities won't narrow streets, reduce lanes, make corners sharper to slow drivers, or install brighter street lights, but follow standards, for fear of "liability".
are the problem. Cities won't narrow streets, reduce lanes, make corners sharper to slow drivers, or install brighter street lights, but follow standards, for fear of "liability".
October 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In my 30 years of advocacy in PDX for walkers, little has changed. Across the country, "Traffic Engineering standards"
are the problem. Cities won't narrow streets, reduce lanes, make corners sharper to slow drivers, or install brighter street lights, but follow standards, for fear of "liability".
are the problem. Cities won't narrow streets, reduce lanes, make corners sharper to slow drivers, or install brighter street lights, but follow standards, for fear of "liability".
I hope this works, as I can't figure out from the diagram-graphic what's a traffic lane, what's a bus lane, where cyclists are expected to go, what the yellow lines mean, etc. (Also it's "not to scale", which means it won't really look like this anyway?)
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I hope this works, as I can't figure out from the diagram-graphic what's a traffic lane, what's a bus lane, where cyclists are expected to go, what the yellow lines mean, etc. (Also it's "not to scale", which means it won't really look like this anyway?)
Growing up in CA, our "Aunt Rose" would take care of us while my Mom was busy. She was actually my grandmother's cousin, who moved from Oklahoma. (Also, she told us about witnessing an Oklahoma Land Rush!)
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Growing up in CA, our "Aunt Rose" would take care of us while my Mom was busy. She was actually my grandmother's cousin, who moved from Oklahoma. (Also, she told us about witnessing an Oklahoma Land Rush!)
Good proportions! Just slightly comical.
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Good proportions! Just slightly comical.
Maybe if the Bacon family had invented the cut of pork, like Broccoli's ancestors popularized (invented?) the vegetable!
October 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Maybe if the Bacon family had invented the cut of pork, like Broccoli's ancestors popularized (invented?) the vegetable!
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All of that stuff is outsourced to volunteers who have no accountability so no wonder it gets shaped by bad faith actors
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
All of that stuff is outsourced to volunteers who have no accountability so no wonder it gets shaped by bad faith actors
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Oh yeah, it’s building codes, zoning, parking requirements, road design, all of it.
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Oh yeah, it’s building codes, zoning, parking requirements, road design, all of it.
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this could apply to the entire traffic "engineering" profession as easily as it does to US fire codes
October 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
this could apply to the entire traffic "engineering" profession as easily as it does to US fire codes
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People somewhat reasonably assume that the rules governing our built environments are built on careful assessment of the best available science and rigorous analysis of tradeoffs but in reality it's like 85% vibes.
October 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
People somewhat reasonably assume that the rules governing our built environments are built on careful assessment of the best available science and rigorous analysis of tradeoffs but in reality it's like 85% vibes.
Emily, you are so awesome!
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Emily, you are so awesome!