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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You can believe in police reform while also believing that offering people the "freedom" to live in flammable and filthy encampments and do fent, meth and alcohol in urban centers with no effective mechanism for forcing people to get help against their will is neither "compassion" nor effective police reform. And again the reality is Vancouver enjoys a river and only busses they have jurisdiction over of buffer room from that and I cannot bring myself to blame them for wanting to keep it. That said, god I want a congestion tax on the bridges for Washington drivers. (I also, to be clear, want the Max system expanded, I just get their perspective)
Also side note, ticketing is pretty ineffective on the TriMet system. It's essentially a tax on people who can sort of afford to pay fare but don't. It does not deter addicts etc because they aren't getting kicked off, just getting a ticket they won't pay and there's no real mechanism for enforcing beyond that point.
The whole problem is your use of words like "offering" and "forcing". Public transportation is a public good. It belongs to everyone. No entity is "offering" anything because it isn't anyone's to offer. We need to get away from the idea that public spaces are things that can be provided or withdrawn.