Portland
Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
- Don't attack other users.
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&%3Bdate=2024-02-10
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Historically it's been WA that shoots down Interstate Bridge replacements (Check out the history of this bridge, various Washington State governments have torpedoed OR-WA upgrade partnerships like a dozen times throughout history, they even backed out of the original construction and left the city of Portland to step in and cover costs, imagine if the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was exclusively funded by New York), but this time around it will probably be ODOT that fucks it up by insisting against all local opposition and traffic wisdom that the bridge work be arbitrarily packaged with an expansion of I-5 for miles south of the bridge. This proposed extra work has balloned the expected ODOT budget to the point where taxes have to go up, triggering a tax revolt by Republicans down in the state capitol. But it's not just rural Republicans who don't like it, urban Democrats don't want more highway lanes polluting their neighborhoods. The upgrade won't happen because ODOTs singlular need to build more highway lanes undermines it all.