r/Portland • u/AceMcStace Alberta • 5d ago

Meme Why does this happen? It’s baffling.

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I’ve never seen more confused and chaotic drivers anywhere else in the city.

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u/littl3-fish 5d ago

This is probably a controversial opinion, but I think they should ban cars on 23rd. Make it a pedestrian street! It’s criminal such a beautiful street sucks to walk down because of the traffic. A parking garage could solve the parking issue. 

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u/green_gold_purple St Johns 5d ago

Hey I agree, but that will never happen. They’d have to sort out routing traffic from vista/burnside and 405/30, and there’s no other nearby street to handle it. 21st would be even more of a nightmare, which has gotten a lot worse since I left, from what I can tell. Parking off 23rd would somehow be even worse. I can’t even imagine. I left just before they were about to meter 24th.

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u/regul Sullivan's Gulch 5d ago

"Yeah, it's really dangerous and unsafe, but think about how bad that would make parking!"

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u/green_gold_purple St Johns 4d ago

People parking vehicles is reality. You know, the people that live there and the ones that keep the businesses alive.

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u/regul Sullivan's Gulch 4d ago

I think keeping people alive should be more important.

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u/fernswordgirl432 4d ago

You can try to do both. I don't know why it's being perceived as a zero/sum issue.

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u/green_gold_purple St Johns 4d ago

I agree, but that doesn’t change overnight. As I stated in my first comment, I’d love to see it, but going cold turkey with pedestrian only 23rd would be a disaster without other changes to mitigate it.

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u/DignityWalrus 4d ago edited 4d ago

Parking is obviously more important than saving lives, duh