I’ve never understood why so many people are moving there. Sure, housing is cheap, but buying a McMansion and a huge pickup is not going to fix the drain on your humanity that living there causes.

Sure there are some nice things in Texas, but whatever fleeting moments of joy you can find are almost instantly drowned out by the hell that is everything else around you.

The type 1s are an important part of history, but they needed to be gone yesterday. Thank god their full retirement is on the horizon now that TriMet has all of their 6s delivered.

If we’re including Interstate then you’ve also gotta include Glenn Jackson. It’s in Portland city limits too.

Clearly TriMet has something in mind if their Forward Together 2.0 Teal Line is any indication.

Gateway would be the main issue and would require a rework but aside from that the rest of the system should be able to handle it. I’m just spitballing because I know there’s no money to rework Gateway, but it would be a project that has the ability to majorly improve the entire system.

Sure there’d be a forced transfer at Gateway for people looking to head into Portland from PDX or Clackamas, but I feel like doubling the frequency systemwide would be worth it.

Our bus and rail system have good bones and with a handful of solid improvement projects it could be doing even better than it was pre-COVID. But instead the state is throwing more money at ODOT for their $10s of billions worth of freeway projects.

Dallas still sucks, I hate that place and Portland will always be better, but it’s very sad to see the state let TriMet face a slow death through stagnation and service cuts. We could be doing so much better.

It really weighs on a person to narrowly miss watching someone die right in front of them. Yet here I am having those close calls every day because people are too impatient to just cross where they’re supposed to or at least see my train and wait for me to pass.

You don’t want to know how I was taught about it in the Texas public school system