BBC enjoys some Kool-Aid
The "planning" cabal's conversion of the central east side of Portland from a center of blue-collar jobs to the next row of flash-in-the-pan hipster hangouts gets a big thumbs-up from the U.K., here.
It's so pitiful. At 8:55 this evening we had to wait while a streetcar made the right turn across three lanes of traffic on Weidler. There was exactly one passenger on board.
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Just another city plan to replace family wage jobs with millionaire condos to get more property tax money.
What happens to those family wage jobs? The city does not care - they will be replaced by upscale sharpies working for government, just a short streetcar ride away in downtown.
Posted by jim karlock | November 16, 2012 3:11 AM
Truthfully, I'm not surprised at the response. To get an idea of how tired normal folks in London are of hipsters, check out either the song "Dickheads" or the various segments of the BBC show "Nathan Barley" on YouTube. In both cases, as with "Portlandia", the direct targets laugh and point and tell everyone "I know SOMEONE ELSE who's just like that!"
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | November 16, 2012 5:38 AM
With the traffic congestion now on Broadway and Weidler due to the trolley and now Multnomah Blvd being changed from two lanes in each direction for vehicles to one lane in each direction, I hope The Loyd Center Enjoys the lack of shoppers during the holiday season due to shoppers not being able to get there in a timely manor.
Posted by phil | November 16, 2012 7:25 AM
“I hope The LLoyd Center Enjoys the lack of shoppers during the holiday season,”
Gee Phil, what do you do for a living? Why would anyone hope for any economic distress, unless of course one were an unemployed hipster looking for more company in misery.
Posted by John Benton | November 16, 2012 8:39 AM
"and now Multnomah Blvd being changed from two lanes in each direction for vehicles to one lane in each direction"
It gets better - CoP is changing the traffic signal timing on Multnomah "to time their traffic signals" for bikes, rather than cars. (Considering the vast majority of cyclists ignore the signals, I'm not sure what the point is, other than to deliberately increase traffic congestion.)
From Twitter:
Peter Koonce @pkoonce
Work in @LloydTMA ? & bike on NE Multnomah? Come collect data for us with a @Garmin GPS so we can time our traffic signals #pdxbikes
Posted by Random | November 16, 2012 9:24 AM
Off to Tanasbourne, Bridgeport, and WA Square! Free parking, no gangs, and security too.
Posted by Portland Native | November 16, 2012 10:32 AM
Hey John, look up the word sarcasm in the Dictionary.
Posted by phil | November 16, 2012 10:35 AM
This would be the same BBC that recently lost most of it's leadership under a cloud of shame after revelation of a decades-long child sexual abuse coverup scandal?
Oh yeah, that BBC.
Posted by Downtown Denizen | November 17, 2012 2:51 PM