#BikeNite A4 https://trimet.org/home/planner-mode-settings/ has options for walk, bike, scooter, or drive to a park-n-ride, for #pdxBikes #Portland metro area, and you can see the current location of the bus + train on the map (but not streetcar govt silo something-something)
@ascentale @younata

@ascentale #BikeNite A8 we've had a nice week of fake spring in #Portland and I had a ride yesterday with someone new to #pdxBikes, as part of the @bikeloudpdx Bike Buddy program. Totally forgot to take a picture until I saw this view of Mt Hood on the way home.

@samueljohnson @danbrotherston @BrentToderian STV is not a terrible method until it's reduced to the single-winner form, IRV. Portland has adopted both in its new system, & thus has at least one or two more conservative seats on council than a survey of the voters would, thanks to splitting by several progressive candidates, just as we frequently had done in primaries. And dodged a bullet in the mayors race with IRV. It's chaotic to count only first-ranked votes while eliminating 2nd choices

@samueljohnson @danbrotherston @BrentToderian ranked choice is more of a stall tactic than it is a solution. STAR voting is more representative in both the proportional or single-winner forms, without the surprise results like half of the mayoral elections that have used RCV (IRV). Watch how the establishment keeps proposing IRV as soon as Approval or STAR gain grassroots momentum. Meanwhile IRV gets banned and repealed because it's just multiple rounds of our broken choose-only-one method.