FWIW I never answered the survey for these reasons. The whole exercise is really frought.

No elected board + history of rose city transit being for-profit + lots of bad actors running around saying there is leadership bloat. Imo

Owner of a beloved local restaurant tried telling me that Trimet was run as a for-profit corporation 😬 I pushed back but didn’t really get anywhere

Tax flight is a myth. Billionaires can afford to live in nice places. Threatening to leave is free and gets results. fiscalpolicy.org/new-tax-data...

Riders do not understand the minutiae of transportation funding or what Trimet’s budget looks like.

Trimet should have been sounding the alarm all during the spring leg session. Now riders are getting blindsided by the cuts and probably developing vulgar conspiratorial takes on Trimet funding.

I see. And this 20-unit-within-200-units development is also desegregated unlike the 20-unit development. That makes sense.

Please help me understand: we are spending 88% of the bill of a social housing complex for 10%-20% affordable developments?!? That can’t be right.

*profile named “rational moderate” made yesterday w/ 12 posts and a low res cat profile pic* I just think it’s really disrespectful.

This! 👆

remember, we cant spend $50,000,000 tomorrow on the corridor everyone already rides and wants, until we spend $500,000,000,000 in 50 years on the corridor people might want and/or ride, someday

www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...

Thank you for this. I look forward to seeing some of your colleagues speak out as well.

I, a white pundit, got 500 million native Spanish speakers together in a room and the one thing they all voted on was the sanctity of the colonial language

Fr these things seem totally captured…. When was the last time someone, anyone was inconvenienced ever so slightly for the climate… what are we *doing* here

Yes

Do you have an alternative I can read instead?

This channel tends to grate on me but I think they were absolutely spot on with this one: youtu.be/8E5MegoW2pA?...

Bought pods for the first time in years but I guess I just won’t be buying detergent at a brick and mortar store anymore 🤷