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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Portland’s Parking Price Hike Proves City Council Hates You
Description: Full Text: Just five months ago, Portland City Council announced that the city was going to have an unexpected $62 million surplus. Earlier that year, the mayor was begging people to come back downtown to shop in stores and eat in restaurants.
Fast forward to today, and Portland has revealed that, somehow, the city’s transportation budget is underwater by more than $12 million dollars. To fill that gap, the city council voted unanimously to raise a giant middle finger to all the downtown shoppers, diners, and workers. The new ordinance raises the price of parking by 40 cents an ho...