😀🚲"This is no time to be driven by ideological rigidity" say the car washers, cartoon villains*, insurance, and crash repair companies demanding 100% of lanes remain a car-dominated shitshow. #transit #climateDenial #Portland #TriMet (* "metro chamber of commerce" was "Portland business alliance" until that name became synonymous with cartoon villainry)
What do you do, and what if it's true
When your best friend confesses to you
That he has become a car dealer
[note this comes after the serial killer verse... maybe the whole song is about one friend]
Troubled Friends
Grinch-stan@enobacon Yeah, I didn't even touch that part of the comment because WHAT.
@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
@enobacon Also most of the members in the PBA didn't actually live in Portland. They're mostly wealthy surburbanites who commute to their businesses in the city. So the name wasn't accurate.
greenpepper22@Karstan @enobacon would suburbanites be commuting on 82nd tho? The 205 runs pretty parallel to 82nd most of the way, I’d think that most suburban commuters would rather be on the highway vs a city road.
I will say as someone who lives by 82nd and drives and walks up and down it all the time, better bus service would be great, but any type of construction really heavily impacts traffic in a bad way, so I do understand the resistance to a long term project
@greenpepper22 @enobacon I was responding to the name change of "Portland Business Alliance" to the "Metro chamber of commerce" or whatever they're calling themselves these days.
While I think their commute is a factor, I'm not sure if that's the main source of their opposition. I think it's more a generic resistance to change and a fundamental misunderstanding of who their customers are (at least for the non-auto-based businesses).
@Karstan @enobacon ahhhhh, I only moved to Portland in 2024 so I am def not aware of a lot of local history like that, my mistake
Yeah fuck anyone who says they’re a Portland business owner if they don’t actually live in the city. It’s fine to live in the burbs but don’t make a “Portland Business Alliance” if ur not actually living here. Life exists outside of business hours too
Nate Allen@Karstan @greenpepper22 @enobacon Sixty one small businesses who announce they don't want my money, including, unfortunately, Fubonn Market.
@mossyfoot @Karstan @enobacon if ur looking for other Asian grocery stores in the area, Hong Phat and Boo Han are both pretty solid in my experience and I don’t see either of them on that list
@greenpepper22 @Karstan @enobacon yeah I've been to Hong Phat. Honestly it probably will be H-Mart that gets my new Asian grocery business in the future.
Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)@enobacon @greenpepper22 @Karstan @mossyfoot I shop at both of those pretty regularly. Hong Phat has some stuff I haven't found at H-Mart, and H-Mart has some stuff I haven't found at Hong Phat. I love them both.