PBOT budget advisors strategize as Mapps leans in for help
Mapps’ biggest bureau is in freefall and he hasn’t found a parachute.
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PBOT leaders lobby Congress on Metro-funded trip to D.C.
Meetings with Oregon lawmakers and a trip to US DOT headquarters were on the agenda.
Fireworks over fees at City Council as Mapps fights for funding
Commissioner Mapps faced an assault from Mayor Wheeler on the budgets of his three bureaus to tune of $18.7 million.
Portland will add 500 bikes to Biketown bike share system
The expansion doubles the size of the fleet since 2000.
Podcast: Transportation Commissioner Mingus Mapps
More cops, fewer cars — and more on where Mapps stands two months into his tenure.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Commissioner Mingus Mapps talk 122nd Ave plan
The new PBOT commissioner and longtime transportation-focused congressman are excited about new federal funding that they hope will transform this dangerous corridor.
Commissioner Mingus Mapps is now in charge of Portland transportation
The move could be another sign that bicycling is on its way back to the front-and-center of local politics
With Hardesty out, who will take reins of PBOT?
We need someone to take over the bureau for the next two years.
Mapps will work on his own charter reform proposal
Mingus Mapps drew the charter reform battle lines more clearly yesterday when the city commissioner announced he would craft an alternative to the proposal put forward last month by the city appointed Charter Review Commission. In an email to supporters Tuesday, Mapps laid out a path to challenging the commission’s plan. It is a deft … Read more
Last minute city budget amendment will consider new park on Eastbank Esplanade
(Graphics by Human Access Project. Animation by BikePortland)
BikePortland Podcast: Former Mingus Mapps policy advisor Matt Glazewski
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‘Green streets’ and the fight against vehicular violence
For Portland City Commissioner Mingus Mapps, last week’s intentional vehicular violence in southeast Portland hit very close to home.