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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP Shrinking 82nd Avenue for People in Cars
Description: At TriMetâs December board meeting, director Tyler Frisbee lectured attendees on how 82nd Avenue business owners and motorists should embrace TriMetâs takeover of auto lanes for exclusive busways.TriMet refers to these as Business Access Transit or BAT lanesâwhich is Orwellâs doublespeak for the opposite effectâreducing business access for people in cars. Portland Bureau of Transportationâs alleged âimprovementâ of 82nd only turns a street made for cars into an avenue for the minority of pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders.82nd is another flagship for how PBOT intends to âimproveâ more streets -- by t...