Better to just blend them together -- and viola! Preen.

Voilà !

I feel like Portland and us are back in junior high.

These Sunday neighborhood shutdowns don't really do much for my sense of community. My sense of community comes from visiting with my next door neighbors, and you don't have to shut down neighborhoods and make a big thing of it like Sundays in the Parks.
Trail Blazers can be a rallying point. I guess Timbers soccer is becoming a rallying point, but geez soccer is so tedious and the City has put a moat around formerly civic stadium against vehicles.

The shutdown is pretty much for bicyclists. It's really not that great for pedestrians, except for what's going on in the parks en route.

Green! No, purple. Oh, it's so hard to decide!

The Sunday shutdowns are another route to get used to close down streets to autos.
In itself, might not be so bad, I hate to be a downer on activities that some people enjoy, but since it is such a part of ongoing "get autos out" -
all added up, it just gets old and weary with this constant "behavioral" beat upon our community.

No, it isn't that great for pedestrians.
We attempted to "walk" to the Belmont Street Fair while this was going on, almost impossible to cross the street. We almost turned around and missed the fair, and guess who stopped but a very considerate young boy on a bicycle.
Apparently, the diehards wouldn't think of it, they come first, right?

There have been several psychological studies of the different colors.

The color purple reveals this: Can be immature, encouraging fantasy and an idealism that is often difficult to achieve in real life.

The color green reveals this: Being possessive and materialistic, indifferent and over-cautious, envious, selfish, greedy and miserly, devious with money, inconsiderate, a hypochondriac and a do-gooder.

No wonder the choice is difficult for Portlanders

Now THAT'S what I call public involvement!

Meh!
Can't PDOT just fill the pot holes?

PDOT would fill the pot holes but t-shirts make lousy pot hole fill.

"Portland, The City That Is Symbolic"

Pukesia works for me.

I've heard the city already owns a good number of orange reflective safety vests that could be borrowed for the event and returned to the construction crews on Monday.

But, that'd actually be fiscally prudent, so be default that option absolutely, positively cannot be considered.

As if I'd wear either.

Maybe if one said "Weird A'int Getting It" it'd make the choice easier.

Erik H. -- Yes, I was thinking exactly the same thing. With a button that says: STAFF or VOLUNTEER or HELP.

Or just ask all volunteers to wear the same color shirt (or skins - that might be fun).

We attempted to "walk" to the Belmont Street Fair while this was going on, almost impossible to cross the street. We almost turned around and missed the fair, and guess who stopped but a very considerate young boy on a bicycle.

I imagine you DID miss the fair, as they were on different weekends.

If the city wants the best color for volunteer shirts, it should go with yellow. It's easily spotted, sunny, and projects caution for crowd control.

I recently had to choose tablecloths for a vendor event and it wasn't easy. Red is a celebratory color for many cultures, but also loud and distracting. Blue is neutral, but dark blue is dampening. Grey is depressing. Khaki or olive say military. Purple or fucshia are proud, loud, royal and (like rainbows) bring to mind flower shows or gay pride events. Green? Makes people think of money or the outdoors. Silver or gold? Over the top. We went with cream (white being seen as too stark by many and as the color of death by some).

Color bedammed, who came up with the uninspired logo?

I imagine you DID miss the fair, as they were on different weekends.

I thought it was the Belmont Fair, it may have been a different "name" or on Hawthorne, as that is the area in which we were walking. All I recall is that there was an event and the streets going to it were filled with the bikes so we couldn't get through, may have been two years ago if you care to do the research, you will find that there was such an event along with a bike event, whatever, I still stand by that it was not good at all for pedestrians.

By the way, I am already tired of looking at those t-shirts. How many are they planning to produce? If I had to pick one, it would be the purple one as the green one too much reminds me of the "green" hypocrisy going on in our city.