Last week, leaked emails revealed Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) director Millicent Williams planned to spend half a million dollars to reverse safety elements on a downtown protected bike lane on Northwest and Southwest Broadway Street. Williams expressed urgency in her plans, while appearing to keep them obscured from the public, and asking if the changes could be made overnight. The proposed changes—which were met with “shock and disbelief,” both from PBOT staff and community...

I’ll reiterate: Mingus Mapps is a fucking liar. He’s also terrible at being PBOT commissioner. We want open data and we want it yesterday. I want to see report metrics. I want to see the PBOT budgets for their teams, their headcount allocation and how they are planning work as well as dealing with emergency problems (eg reports).