In interview, Mapps blames BikePortland for Broadway bike lane scandal
The only thing he’s clear about is who to blame. That’s not the type of leader Portland needs.
The only thing he’s clear about is who to blame. That’s not the type of leader Portland needs.
Questions about the project can be put to rest. Questions about possible backroom deals cannot.
Commissioner Mapps’ recent comments at a town hall meeting require that I set the record straight.
Quick Build program funding was not used to build the Broadway bike lanes.
“Doing nothing is not an option,” Williams wrote.
Mapps maintains he never signed-off on a specific plan and that his PBOT Director was merely starting a conversation.
Mapps’ claims don’t stand up to scrutiny.
It would be an unprecedented reversal of a protected bike facility.
Whether it translates into support to fund the program, remains to be seen.
Two members of city council biked at the event — and they saw everything Parkways is so beloved for.
Mapps is right to focus on it, but he’s off to a bad start.
Anger and frustration about Portland deadly roadways — and a feeling that local officials have not done enough in response to it — has been simmering (and at times boiling over) for months. At a press conference Monday morning at City Hall, that anger revealed itself in the voices and actions of several protestors who … Read more