A loose screw caused the Portland streetcar crash that took place a couple of weeks ago, reports TriMet. The screw jammed up the streetcar throttle, making it difficult to impossible to slow the streetcar down.
Of course, this invites all sorts of invidious jokes that the Antiplanner can’t resist making, mainly because it’s nearly midnight and I’ve been working on too many other projects to have written a more incisive blog post for Thursday.
Anyone who watches Portlandia, which some consider to be more of a documentary than a comedy, knows there are a lot of loose screws in Portland. One of the first real examples of loose screws was the decision to build the streetcar line that opened in 2001. There was some plausible justification for light rail, at least at first glance, but streetcars made no sense at all when buses were better at everything streetcars could do except spending lots of money.
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In fact, the streetcars it built were overpriced, late, and didn’t work very well. The streetcar that crashed in May was one of the ones built by that company, which is now no longer making streetcars since no one wants to order six streetcars from a company that then delivers five (late) and says, “You’re not getting less; you’re getting more.” Where I live, five is still less than six, but Portland meekly accepted the company’s failure to meet the terms of its contract.
Meanwhile, the light-rail line that Portland wants to build into the southwest suburbs is now expected to cost as much as $2.86 billion, a billion dollars more than the early projections. “The dream of riding [light rail] to Cabela’s lives on,” observes Willamette Week; “it’s just a very expensive dream.” I doubt that many people in Portland dream of riding light rail to Cabela’s, but due to too many loose screws, few people in the city are going to fret over a mere billion-dollar price increase.
Anyone who watches Portlandia knows that those in Portland don’t want people associating the show with the dynamic of the city. Yes the series is exaggerated which is why people don’t want to be seen that it’s propensity for weirdness is ubiquitous. Cause what’s so special about something that’s ubiquitous.
Portland’s political system is set up to satiate their personal ideological and identity disorders. The city is a tried and tested experiment in the acceptance of oddity. A stable family and parents that are still together? is a rare sight. It’s flat out bizarre how everyone in Portland either never knew their dad, or have parents who hate each other, or have siblings incarcerated, or who were horribly abused by their fathers, or just plain don’t want to have anything to do with their families. But all of those people have street cred. Oh and rich people are screwing up the works according to many a voice on the street. (Note: In this context, “rich” is a term used to describe anyone who makes more money than the person using that term. At least it’s not like California, total ruin………….yet
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” – attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen
“Anyone who watches Portlandia knows that those in Portland don’t want people associating the show with the dynamic of the city.”
Huge generalization that is false on its face.
“people don’t want to be seen that it’s propensity for weirdness is ubiquitous.”
Wrong “its”. But have you even been to Portland, bro? “Keep Portland Weird” is the motto on the building in Old Town, and that motto is printed on bumper stickers that are plastered all over the city’s cars.
“It’s flat out bizarre how everyone in Portland either never knew their dad, or have parents who hate each other, or have siblings incarcerated, or who were horribly abused by their fathers, or just plain don’t want to have anything to do with their families”
Wow. “Everyone” bro? This is more insightful generalizing.
LazyReader? More like LazyRetard.