😀🚲with "transportation bureaus" and "bike advocates" like these, who needs transportation bureaus and bike advocates? #Portland #Beaverton #bhHwy, Bertha, Capitol, all three are key bike routes which are stranded by #ODOTGTFOpdx's stroads.
Of course ODOT piled their tools and shit in the bike lane for two years to finally finish these almost-continuous ones, and the stripes are bumpy rumble strips that are not confidence-inspiring when you have to cross them at 30mph to dodge some broken glass and other neglect. Posted speed: 40mph, total waste of space stroad right next to a 6-lane freeway, but highway dept gonna highway dept 🤷 #ODOTGTFOpdx #pdxBikes
#BusLanes #E82ndAve #pdx #Portland #transit #TriMet #ODOTGTFOpdx
https://bsky.app/profile/senkhanhpham.bsky.social/post/3mewnbtjibs2g
Senator Khanh Pham (@senkhanhpham.bsky.social)
Grateful for @trimet.org's leadership, and for the community voices who have pushed the agency to prioritize bus service on 82nd Avenue. This is a victory for healthier, more affordable and more equitable neighborhoods in East Portland. https://loom.ly/M0czKOY https://news.trimet.org/2026/02/transit-priority-lane-decision-keeps-82nd-avenue-transit-project-moving-forward-but-funding-questions-remain/
#triMet board member calls out #Oregon state #transportation dept #trafficEngineers for clinging to disproven pseudoscience Level of Service aka V/C in #E82ndAve planning. #InducedDemand couched in the "safety" concerns about cars backing-up on the freeway offramps. #Portland metro will never be free of this braindead worship of the highway manual until we remove that authority from ODOT. #ODOTGTFOpdx
ODOT Called Out for Putting Cars Over People
> Imagine the irony of a transit agency not building dedicated bus lanes because they’re worried about how it might impact car traffic on nearby state-owned highways.
>ODOT worries that if more space on 82nd is dedicated to bus travel, less of it will be available for car users [and less money will hemorrhage out of our state's economy into the pockets of oil, auto, and finance barons 😱]
#TriMet #Portland #transit #e82ndAve #ClimateAction #ODOTGTFOpdx
https://bikeportland.org/2026/01/15/trimet-lays-out-new-hurdles-for-82nd-avenue-bus-lanes-398945
If the problem is that Powell is an ODOT road... TAKE IT AWAY FROM ODOT!!! #ODOTGTFOpdx It's not like we don't also need bus lanes on Powell.
Loads of excellent public testimony in favor of #BusLanes on #e82ndAve #Portland (Note the comparison to Foster Rd, which several years ago received a road diet while the furniture salesman posted ~"the end is nigh" on the front of his store for 2yrs leading up to it 😆 ) #TriMet #transit #InducedDemand #trafficEngineers #ODOTGTFOpdx
82nd Ave Transit Project: Policy & Budget Meeting 1/16/2026
won't someone think of the freeway widening consultants, sitting by the offramp holding a sign "will draw one more lane for food" #FuckCars #NoMoreFreeways #InducedDemand #ODOTGTFOpdx
@Karstan TBH some extremes would be warranted if we've waited this long and lobbied for jurisdictional transfer and the money supposedly owed by the state for the negligence that's killed so many people over the years can't manage #BusLanes?? At some point enough people are going to catch on that all of that talk about "working within the system" toward #ODOTGTFOpdx is just stall tactics by and for the beneficiaries of car supremacy. Curb lanes of all 4-lane stroads could be bus lanes tomorrow
One could probably take the sidewalk going the other way, but more slowly and/or at more risk of drivers pulling in and out without expecting anyone to be zipping through on the sidewalk. Would be nice if #trafficEngineers had some infrastructure ideas besides painting a bike lane between two truck lanes. #BarburBlvd #odotGTFOpdx