#Portland schools suffering the ineptitude of ted wheeler, episode 5693: sending 600 high-schoolers 11 miles (a 1hr bus ride) across town because the [checks notes...] SCHOOL building across the street has a different specific designation in the zoning database. Hello #transportation #policyFailure, #BusDriverShortage, #pdxTraffic good luck with that extra 500 cars on the road, apologies to 100 future inmates etc.

https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2023/09/02/a-college-cant-be-used-as-a-school-so-jefferson-high-students-will-travel-11-miles/

The president, long a champion of #gunsafety, needs to move quickly to fix this #policyfailure.

The number of semi-automatic #firearms #exported from the US has more than doubled since 2016... generated #bigprofits for the #gunindustry — while causing #mayhem throughout the region, including at the US-Mexico #border.

#StopBusinessAsUsual #degradedspaces #StateSanctionedViolence #ThrowawayPeople #DegradationMakesRefugees

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-22/michael-r-bloomberg-america-s-export-of-gun-violence-is-a-bipartisan-outrage?cmpid=BBD082223_CUS&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230822&utm_campaign=closeamericas

two people in a car carrying a tandem bike around on a beautiful day seems like a #transportation #policyFailure #Portland

Albanese government rolling back covid exceptionalism.
PCR, psychology reduced.
No isolation requirements or payments.
What data is supplied on number of cases is useless.
False economy.

Covid IS exceptional, and it's not a respiratory disease alone.

#Cardiac
#Stroke
#Diabetes
#ImmunityRobbery
#CovidIsNotOver
#PolicyFailure
#COVID19

...or the "bikes merge with autos" sign where the street got too narrow for anything except two very wide car lanes (~3.9 car widths.) Sorry folks, we made up a rule that says cars get whatever they want and wrote it in a book 70-odd years ago, no way to change that ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
#ClimateAction Failure #InducedDemand #TrafficEngineering #PolicyFailure

I moved the empty trash cans out of the bike lane where the hauler left them, again 🙄 ,
and picked up the large jagged pieces of glass where somebody threw a bottle from a car 😠 ,
not sure what to do about the diesel emissions from the truck idling a half block away 🤢,
or the oil slick on the rainwater in the gutter 😒
or the tire particles you can't see on their way to kill some fish. 😞 #PolicyFailure

“[…] the debate’s organizers chose to devote seven minutes to #ClimateChange, 70 minutes into a 120-minute debate, as if it were a fifth-tier issue. Similar to humanity’s overall response to climate change, it was far too little and far too late.”

The First Democratic Debate Failed The Planet
https://newrepublic.com/article/154334/first-democratic-debate-failed-planet

#PolicyFailure #MediaFailure #NoOneIsComingToSaveUs