Festive Shadow 🎄🎅
I’m the chronically online transit nerd who went out and started operating trains - My views and opinions do not represent those of my employer. I don’t know why people would assume that, but in the interest of keeping my job, it’s here.
- In hindsight something like this was obviously happening. We get taxed to hell and back in Portland and see fuck all in return. This isn’t to say I don’t support the taxes that bring this money in. I do. It’s more to say that our government, at all levels, are terrible stewards of our tax dollars.
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- Reposted by Festive Shadow 🎄🎅here's a longer form housing post, with three proposals for housing policy ideas portland could pursue in 2026 to increase housing production: urbanpdx.blog/a-2026-portl...
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- Making a version of the “follow your leader” image but instead of Hitler shooting himself its Bolsonaro in a hospital bed
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- PSA: Do not hold the doors of a train open. It is your responsibility to be at the platform on time, and be ready for your stop when we get there. Don’t make it everyone else’s problem and delay the train because you couldn’t do one of those two things.
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- Why the hell did PPB think it was a good idea to enter our tracks in a 55 mph zone and not give us a heads up about it?
- Reposted by Festive Shadow 🎄🎅Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.
- Reposted by Festive Shadow 🎄🎅there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school
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- Assuming IBRP is using old CRC work to save the time and money, at this political moment, why can’t we just start from scratch? It’s not like the Trump administration is going to give us any money. We’re blue states. Why not use the few years we have to give us an infinitely better result?
- I will forever contend that a lot of our worst freeway traffic in Portland is because we have too many on and offramps too close to each other, and the ramps have awful 60s-80s geometry with no merging space.
- I was expecting like $10-12 billion. This is like unimaginably bad.
- Cost of Interstate Bridge more than doubles to $13.6 billion, and could go as high as $17.7 billion, according to new estimates. IBR officials have delayed and hidden these new estimates for the past two years. www.wweek.com/news/state/2...
- Reposted by Festive Shadow 🎄🎅the real doom loop is service cuts to our transit system. if you cut frequency on an already infrequent system, it’s going to hurt ridership, which will lead to more cuts and fare hikes, which further hurt ridership. all of that of course adds future liabilities to the rest of the transport system
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- My last hope is that these service cuts scares the state legislature into finding a way to fund transit. I don’t think that’ll happen, state legislators have made it pretty clear they have no interest in doing anything transportation related in the short session, but I have to have some hope.
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- This lays at the feet of the state legislature. This is their fault for not doing the job we elected them to do.
- We were already in the lost years of TriMet, with very little meaningful expansion and improvement of the system, but now I can’t help but feel this is the start of a death spiral.
- Reminder that there’s a good reason for TriMet’s rule about large wagons not being allowed on trains. Took 3 minutes for a person in a wheelchair to get on my train because some homeless person was taking up the whole ADA section with their can wagon and refused to move.
- I love when someone walks on the green line tracks when the 205 path is RIGHT THERE.
- So glad the linchpin of our whole rail system is a 114 year old lift bridge.
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- Tonight it’s 4 different people at once trespassing on the Banfield, all spread out.
- I hate the heat and like mountains. Also West Coast best coast.
- Another night, another guy trespassing on the Banfield, destroying the schedules of dozens of trains.
- ✨Auto in the ROW✨
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- For my local transit nerds, here is a list of the remaining Type 1s and their status: 103 (in maintenance) 105 109 (broken) 111 (broken) 113 (in maintenance) 114 (broken) 115 (in maintenance) 120 (broken) 121 122 (in maintenance) 124 (in maintenance)
- To be clear, if you ride transit you probably won’t see or experience any of this on any given day. I spend 8-11 hours a day on these trains so my exposure to it is way higher.
- The most depressing thing about my job is constantly witnessing antisocial behavior that negatively affects everyone and knowing that there will never be any consequences for that behavior.
- So, like, what are we supposed to do if this bill gets repealed? Just watch our state’s entire transportation system collapse? If the most half assed transportation funding bill can’t stand, then what hope is there of actually fixing things?
- Oh no! Who could have seen this coming?
- Poop river
