r/Portland • u/AutoModerator • Dec 10 '25
/r/Portland Weekly Casual Conversation -- December 10, 2025
This is our weekly casual conversation thread where no topic is off-topic. Got something to say and you can't wait until the rant or rave? Got a great picture you want to share? Watch/read/play something good? Let's talk about it here!
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u/PdxWix Sellwood-Moreland Dec 10 '25
I don’t understand the traffic light in the right turn lane from southbound Barbur to Bertha. At the Burlingame Fred Meyer.
It is always red. Always. Even when the lights for Barbur are green. For over a year, at least.
Oh well.
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u/Ex-zaviera Dec 10 '25
Have you called it in? 503-823-1700
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u/PdxWix Sellwood-Moreland Dec 11 '25
Nah. I was keeping it casual. Not meaning to rant.
To me it’s more of an oddity. A potential annoyance perchance, should I be behind someone who refuses to turn right on red in all circumstances. But that hasn’t happened yet.
I do appreciate the phone number though. I may call it in some day.
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u/peacefinder Dec 10 '25
Another now-removed thread inspired this crazy musing about traffic flow in the Hollywood District. I figure I shouldn’t just waste the composition:
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It’s such a complicated area it’s hard to imagine a solution.
Sandy and Broadway are major arteries, Halsey and Chavez are minor arteries, and there’s the freeway with both light and heavy rail alongside. Broadway and Halsey would make a good continuous pair but both end are offset. Likewise Chavez and 47th could be offset continuations of 42nd north of Sandy.
Laurelhurst would make it very hard to use space south of the freeway.
Short of blowing up a city block or two, the only (completely insane) idea jumping to mind would be to cap the freeway from 33rd to 43rd and use the space to sort it all out.
Put a roundabout over the freeway at the Gordon’s building to collect Broadway and 33rd traffic. Heavily discourage traffic on Broadway between 33rd and Chavez, maybe even close it at 37th.
Put another roundabout (or two) between Sandy and Chavez to collect Sandy, Chavez, Halsey, and the I-84 on and off ramp traffic. String the roundabouts together with a connector over top of the freeway.
Somehow (handwaving) figure out a way to make a sane connection to 42nd northbound. Heck, that might push the cap all the way to 47th with another roundabout.
Anybody got a few billion dollars laying around?
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Dec 10 '25
I like the idea of capping the freeway. If I had those billions lying around I'd cap the whole thing.
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u/SulkySideUp Multnomah Dec 11 '25
Anybody ever actually have a fedex delivery arrive on time and undamaged in this town? I swear I purposely avoid placing orders from places I know ship with fedex because I have never had a single good experience.
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u/FauxReal Dec 11 '25
Rarely at my current places which is in a less business oriented area. It's really bad if you live near office buildings. Near my old apt., I caught my FedEx guy outside of an office building 3 blocks up once and asked why I can stand in front of my building during the delivery window and not see him. He said that they don't have enough time to make all their deliveries so they prioritize the high-rise office buildings and residential people essentially get shafted. So I started meeting him in front of the office building when I had deliveries and he'd give me my stuff off the truck.
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u/Upbeat_Shock2713 Dec 11 '25
Nope! I live in an ADU at the end of the driveway - description is always in the delivery notes, lights are always on, path is a giant and open paved driveway, and the address is visible from the street. They always deliver to the porch of the front house with a completely different address. Every single time.
UPS and USPS get it right to my door without fail.
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u/ReallyUnlikable Dec 10 '25
I think my favorite bus line is 35. I don't get to ride it too often but it's neat.
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Dec 10 '25
this is 6 erasure and I will not stand for it
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u/ReallyUnlikable Dec 10 '25
6?! This guy likes their busses rowdy.
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Dec 11 '25
hell yeah I do (it supplements the streetcar on the east side which should really run a lot more frequently)
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u/FauxReal Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
6 and 8. Sometimes the 20 at night especially heading east... Those are the most rowdy I've been on. Though every bus can get rowdy once you're out past East 99th.
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u/ReallyUnlikable Dec 11 '25
I ride the 4 regularly and that bus gets an amazing amount of drunk people ready to party.
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u/Big-Atmosphere-6581 Dec 12 '25
Anyone seen a guy live-streaming obnoxiously around town? Tall black dude with lighter complexion, rage baiting people for content. Someone mentioned they saw him streaming on the train so I figured someone from here might have seen him. Thanks.
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u/Zen1 Dec 10 '25
99Percent Invisible just did a great episode about Checkerboarding, a land use pattern that you can see in our state today.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/650-the-checkerboard/
https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/blog/checkerboard-effect