I really wish people would stop hating on cyclists. You guys think bike lanes are a waste of tax dollars? We'll see who's laughing when fossil fuels are extinguished, and your fat McDonalds ass can't get home to Beaverton.

Keep crying and fantasizing about cars "disappearing' you illiterate stoners - as the diminishing tax base that pays your way flees for real and you're forced to try and survive.

God damn, you're all a bunch of babies. Everyone just shut the fuck up and show a little respect to one another. You worthless pieces of shit. Sort of like that.

Oh no! Not Lars Larson, 750 KXL! He's even worse than Mike Tyson!

HA! April 7, 2010, 9:36 am comment about ditching some council members, but keeping Erik Sten is great! That Sten left his post on April 4th, 2008, 2 years and 3 day before this message was left, seems to be irrelevant to the caller!

The comments on here are almost as funny as the transcripts. Everyone hates everyone, lol

Something needs to be done about that black mamba.

"Oh no! Not Lars Larson, 750 KXL! He's even worse than Mike Tyson!"
Lars makes you wish you never even had ears...

"Oh no! Not Lars Larson, 750 KXL! He's even worse than Mike Tyson!"
Larson makes you wish you never even had ears...

proof that motorists are vulgar, ignorant and angry. maybe its from spending all that money, or the guilt of making us invade other countries for the convenience of driving a few blocks to buy more plastic. i'd need to be ignorant too in order to live that way. i'd probably have other personality disorders too.

Last time I checked, most people love living in Portland. There are so many places for right-wing, religious-freak nutcases to live and just a few left for us sensible/rational people who like it here and make it such a great place to live.

You'd think the nutcases would expend their energy moving to one of the many shithole cities in the US that are dominated by religious nutcases and others of their ilk rather than spending time making useless phone calls to a voicemail system.

That's what I did when i got sick of living in one of the US's largest, southern dumps run by inbred, hateful, illiterate rednecks. Three cheers for Portland!!! One of the few places left where right-wing psychos still live fruitless, hopeless, frustrated existences.

More bike lanes, please!!

Ha ha, that spam comment actually feels like it fits in this thread!

I'm going to call up the complaint line and just say: "Restaurant food *is* way too salty."

The Chart of Complaints makes me really wish I could read the rest.

if cyclists want bike lanes let them pay for licences and registrations to pay for it. hell, i'll even chip in some of the fees that i pay to own and run a car. no prob. we all need to get around.

but can we please stop the shit (human fecal matter) from spilling into willamette river. the government of portland needs to stop diverting funds from incredibly important public works projects into initiatives that only benefit 10% local population. for a city that claims to be "green-minded" i can't believe that we ignore the cesspool in the middle of the city. as citizens we should all be outraged.

@ D
This "illiterate stoner" probably paid more income taxes last year than YOU make in 5 years net profit, you jackass. You consider yourself the "diminishing tax base"? I bet you live with your mom. Die.

That chart is terrible! Why aren't the bars to scale?

@el dulce - care to share how much you paid - or will that classy pic of your hipster glasses have to speak for the 'massive' amounts that you make? @el dulce+D - you both equally sound like self-important morons to me.
Its stupid to think that all internal combustion engines will go away - planes, trucks, and all cars will be eliminated? Care to take a bike any time you want to move your furnature cross-country or to visit friends? Row to Europe or Tibet for a vacation? Wait 4 weeks for a package from Amazon shipping? Not likely. It's also just as stupid to keep going with our foreign oil dependency. However, the truth is much of our tax base that pays for transportation is based on the fees that autos, trucks, and airplanes pay - something big will change if those dollars go away.

Better/worse - no idea - we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Just chill the heck out.

But yeah - fix the friggen cesspool river, dump the stupid bums that keep taking the money we pay them and not even fix pipes or basic services. A fire hydrant outside my house got hit 3 YEARS ago, it's been marked by the city, and it's still not fixed. Or how about actually giving us the tri-met services we've been paying for. Or how about figuring out why our schools are in the the top 10 of funding per student, but in the bottom 10% of performance.

Why do people here in Portland whine soo much?

What are you whining about, DamosA?

I don't like Cars, but there not going away any time soon. I just hope the people that drive them, aren't asshole-tea bagging types like the ones leaving these messages. The angrier they get, the more likelier they'll leave, the safer I'll feel commuting on my trusty steel-framed steed.

@plang
I'll tell you how much I paid if you post a pic of yourself.

I'm bummed my phone in complaint didnt get in this article.It went like this,"Hello...hello?Yes ummm could you send out a posse to my house.I'm under seige by a bunch of bored,angry,egotistical shit for brains.What?O.k.I.ll hold.[elevator music]Is this Mr. Bummed?[me]Uh yes it is.I didn't know I was going to talk with someone live.[him]Well sir you've reached the hipster hotline and we think bitching anger spewing banter is...well HIP!!!![me]But it just fucking bums me out that you think that way.It seems such a waste of time and energy.Why cant we all[Him]Sir shut the fuck up!!Listen if you could move a little closer to your kitchen window it will be easier for me to shed light on your question.[me]Ummm okay.I'm here by the window so what[ the sound of glass breaking]OUCH !!!A fucking brick?!!!![Him]Eat shit lovemonger.Hate and anger are here to stay.[click brrrrrr]

OKKK...I now know why all of the City Of Portland vehicles have the logo or should I say low go, "Portland...The City That Works" They only work the members of the SS. Who knew?

People will never tire of bitching, nor will the Mercury tire of clinging lovingly to the Mayor's taint like so much underwear lint.

I've grown up, lived and biked through portland my entire life. What sucks about all thses new cyclist is the inssistance of riding down the busy roads just to show off their fucking look and fixies. Pretty stupid when they could be using the parrelel side neighborhood streets with much less traffic and potential to look like a dumbass. I feel like when the city has pressing financial limitations as it is, then all you transplants need to SHOW ME YOU LOVE MY HOMETOWN BY RIDING WITH ME ON THE SIDE STREETS ....yes, IT WORKS FINE. Plus, this is just a dangling carrot for us liberal voters who should be willing like I did to inform sam that a few more bike lanes is not going to change the police rampage problem. In fact, both issues come down to personal responsability and accountability. And if Sam wants to put in more bike lanes great but if doesn't do anything about making examples out of trigger happy cops than I will simply ride my bike down a side street on election day vote for the types of individuals who don't backdown from a just fight. But how many hipsters actually give two shits about the minorities that they've inadvertanly pushed out to the back burner of priorities as PDX prepairs for making this new voting block of self obsorbed cool kids and their fixed gears.

Kinda of scared to share the streets with these people. And scared for my fiance who bikes everywhere and doesn't seem to understand that many drivers here wish him ill will.

This is an example I've why I thank my local politicians (Ben Cannon, Sam Adams & others) for actually taking the job and trying to make Portland a better place to live and work. Remember they raised funds (kissed ass) and basically paid to take a job that doesn't nearly pay what they spend to "win" the job.
Thanks Sarah for exposing us to the insides of all that makes Portland interesting.
yard tamer

Got to love the fact that the Mercury only printed the transcripts that trivialize the LEGITIMATE question concerned with HOW we are supposed to pay for bike lanes with public funds designated for MUCH NEEDED sewer upgrades.

But who cares about all the xtra human shit flowing into the river? We don't need to accommodate the growing population's fecal flow. We need to accommodate this new voting blocks ability to more easily show off their fixed gears as they look hip riding down Mississipp there.

But hey, leave it to the Mercury to maintain the status quo under the guise of "keeping Portland weird" and progressive.

I MEAN, maybe, just maybe, diverting funds to bike lanes is a short sighted attempt on the Mayor's part to win more votes from a transplanted population of self absorbed hip kids who think it's cool to pour their shit into the river. Sounds like it's worth a shot.

OF COURSE WE NEED some new bike lanes ....but 100million dollars worth, RIGHT NOW? ....WHEN SHIT IS FLOWING into the RIVER?

C'mon, let's get our priorities strait by taking a slower and more holistic approach to the infrastructural necessities of the flow of people and their poop.

Just cause you flushed doesn't mean your shit's gone, it has to go somewhere like downhill.

Thank you, Portland Mercury for printing these complaints. Laughter is indeed the best medicine. What a menagerie!
On a more sober note, I will not be riding a bicycle in this town anytime soon unless I want to be mowed over by Mad Max Mel.
Poor Sam Adams.

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