@enobacon Well I live in Beaverton, whose downtown core has eight car dealerships within a mile radius. So...
@yantor3d yeah Beaverton is what happens when suburbs tax residents to build car infrastructure.
Replying to @enobacon@urbanists.social
@enobacon It's not even very good car infrastructure (if such a thing exists)
@yantor3d You can't make good car infrastructure without giving all of the bored amateur drivers some other options that are cheaper and more convenient for most trips. And of course car dealerships don't want that, so... What I can't figure out though, is Beaverton's council seems particularly progressive, but they seem to keep sleepwalking over the cliff. Maybe they haven't caught on to how regressive cars are or just not aware of what they can do about it.
Replying to @enobacon@urbanists.social
@enobacon the gist I got at Bike Beaverton this year when I was asking about the fuster cluck going on at Murray and Walker - where the bike lanes will be amputated for two years while they do "improvements" - is that the roads around Beaverton are a mess of city, county, and state responsibility, and there's a lot of unincorporated rich suburbs around that don't contribute to the tax base to maintain the roads they drive their oversized SUVs on.
All of which sounds like excuses, and probably is.
