It's federally earmarked money mandated to be used for bikeway markings. So Another World Blog, short answer is no. Graham, Number Six and frankieb: would you rather they just painted annoyingly-colored stripes across roads like some cities do?
Also, yes, tweakers will have these down in no time.
Strange how we can never seem to get any" federally-earmarked money" around here for things like ceiling tiles in schools, asphalt or anything other than ridiculous nonsense like this.
If this $ absolutely HAD to be spent on "bikeway markings," then why not more bike boxes or paint for bike lanes? This seems like a waste of cash.
c'mon, how much could that possibly cost? i'm sure we pay more for police overtime every last-thursday. should we cancel those also? maybe use that money to hire a new committee to talk about building another bridge.
don't get me wrong, it is ugly. but i'm sure the cost almost nothing
"Before anyone goes off again on how this money was spent - please note, this is a Regional Arts Council grant. The money was required to be spent to improve aesthetics, and the public was specifically solicited to help determine how to leverage that to provide visual reminders of the bike aspects of the corridor in an attempt to increase driver awareness."
Since the local counties, metro and city of portland give money to the RACC, I wonder still what percentage of these funds were put up by the public?
So, the PBOT - funded by us, and the RACC, largely funded by us, paid for this, correct?
"RACC board chair Carol R. Smith and executive director Eloise Damrosch shared highlights of the organizations’ annual report — available here. One of the early bar charts Damrosch shared: the city invested about $4.9 million in RACC last year, and RACC raised about $1.8 million in funds from other sources to provide $6.7 million in grants and services for the local arts community. "
I wonder the costs...
Also, yes, tweakers will have these down in no time.
-Number Six
If this $ absolutely HAD to be spent on "bikeway markings," then why not more bike boxes or paint for bike lanes? This seems like a waste of cash.
don't get me wrong, it is ugly. but i'm sure the cost almost nothing
http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/index.cf…
By my calculations, that equals .0003% of portland's annual budget.
not exactly policy changing numbers
"watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves" ??
"Before anyone goes off again on how this money was spent - please note, this is a Regional Arts Council grant. The money was required to be spent to improve aesthetics, and the public was specifically solicited to help determine how to leverage that to provide visual reminders of the bike aspects of the corridor in an attempt to increase driver awareness."
or
"federally earmarked money" (from the PBOT)
is it both somehow? please explain.
So, the PBOT - funded by us, and the RACC, largely funded by us, paid for this, correct?
So.... what does this tell you?
And most of the public doesn't ride a bike just on SE Clinton either.