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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.

https://bikeportland.org/2026/02/24/neighborhood-group-backed-by-bike-advocate-opposes-bike-lane-upgrades-399372

Neighborhood group, backed by bike advocate, opposes bike lane upgrades

They also want more input into PBOT project selections.

BikePortland
Feb 25 at 4:55amWeb
Show thread😀🚲Feb 25
The BH-Hwy part of this is probably going to be 2ft wide with a 10in curb, unless they give up some of their 5 x 12ft car lanes. The other segments of Bertha (drawn wrong on the map, pending correction) and Cap Hwy are going to be world-changing for the amount of housing density around there. This might be true of that segment of BHH too, but they'll be riding on the sidewalk.
Show threadDeanFarrellFeb 25
@enobacon How the hell can a bike advocate oppose bike lane upgrades?
Show threadDemonHuskyFeb 25
@DeanFarrell @enobacon haaaaaave you met John Forester....
Show thread😀🚲Feb 25
@DeanFarrell these lanes are narrow and the most they're going to do is install some unbroken line of mountable curbs that would crash your bike but totally won't stop a car from killing you in the lane you can't get out of. 5 x 12ft car lanes but bikes fenced into the gutter. Both sides are doing it wrong here.
Show threadscott fFeb 25
@DeanFarrell @enobacon There is a link in the post you're responding to, where they explain their reasoning in great detail.
Show threadscott fFeb 25
@enobacon I see their point after reading the argument against it. Your bike advocacy community needs a way to internally come to consensus on these kinds of disagreements about strategy and priority, and then present a united front about whatever decision is reached (even if not everyone is wild about it). Being divided is fatal to progress.
Show threadscott fFeb 25
@enobacon We had an internally divided bike advocacy community in SF recently around Valencia Street, a major route where the city proposed bike lanes running down the center of the street. Most people hated the idea but in the bike advocacy world some decided to support it because at least it was some change from the useless delivery driver double-parking lanes we had, while others decided to vociferously oppose. That public acrimony set back cycling in SF by years.
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@scott but the center-running lanes were a bad design 🤷 hard to think the people who opposed it were the ones who got it wrong.
Show threadscott fFeb 25
@enobacon I'm saying fighting it out in public was the primary thing we all got wrong.
Show thread😀🚲Feb 25
@scott maybe I should just act like the city is doing what I told them to 😎
Show threadSimplicatorFeb 25
@scott @enobacon Doesn’t bode so well for democracy in general
Show threadscott fFeb 25
@Simplicator @enobacon hmm I disagree. Associational democracy, where members of (for example) a local bike coalition debate and vote on the position of the coalition and then express that position in public, is democracy on action.
Show threadSimplicatorFeb 25
@scott @enobacon Tangent: which goes to why “top 2” jungle primaries are an attack on freedom of association. Any hack can stick a party label on their ballot line w/o them being the choice of the actual people in the party
Show thread😀🚲Feb 25
@Simplicator @scott the problem there is choose-only-one voting / welcome to my starvoting.org advocacy newsletter
Show thread😀🚲Feb 25
@scott this guy is a cyclist. Unfortunately most people don't ride out here where I am, including much of the bike advocacy community or traffic bureau staff.