And other speculative but interesting scenarios.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
We spend all our time on this website writing about things that are true.
So we decided that it’d be fun to spend 40 minutes talking about things that aren’t.
In the latest episode of our monthly podcast, producer Lillian Karabaic, Jonathan and I sat down for a particularly fun game: inspired by this CityLab post, we took turns proposing improbable (but plausible) events that could change the future of Portland transportation and then making educated (though sometimes wacky) guesses about what would happen next.
We considered scenarios like these:
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What if Walmart started selling commuter-quality bikes?
What if the city held its public meetings after its street projects instead of beforehand?
What if we removed every street parking space in the city overnight?
We spent a few minutes on each of these and other possibilities. And the ideas did my favorite thing that ideas can do: ricochet.
One annoying note: Due to a problem with my microphone, I’m at a much lower volume here than Jonathan and Lily. Listening with headphones helps. We apologize for this and will get it straightened out for the next episode.
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