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&date=2024-02-10
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Because Washington, Oregon, and California want to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035.
I know, I know, it SOUNDS like the future, but it's only 11 years out.
Doing that will drastically reduce the money coming from the gas tax.
I don't think anyone is going to hit that target. Even then, increasing the gas tax is the best way to fund it currently.
Oh, absolutely agreed, but we need a top to bottom re-think on how fees work in a future with electric and automomous vehicles.
We already weren't prepared for mass work from home altering parking fees, parking fines, and traffic tickets, it's only going to get worse with autonomous vehicles.
I could see cities doing what London is already doing, toll gates to access the city core.
I can see a future where, if I'm not working from home, my autonomous vehicle drops me off at work, drives itself home, then comes and picks me up either at a pre-determined time, or when summoned, zeroing in on my cell phone signal.
No speeding tickets, no parking tickets, no parking fees or fines. City is going to lose a BOATLOAD of money.