what the fuck is up with portland
what the fuck is up with portland
The winds of change are blowing
but portland was alawys like that
kontextmaschine I demand… kontext
Uh. That area’s got a few high-rise office buildings (it was planned as sort of a “new downtown, with better freeway access”, back when that was the kind of thing planners were planning).
Also not quite there but just south of there, across the freeway in a natural gulch, is a pretty street people-heavy area, but they’re pretty well behaved, a lot of them who came over the bridges to escape the shitshow downtown but stay in commuting range of social services.
What it probably is though, that’s the intersection of the major light rail lines that go out to the suburbs, including the methier ones.
But as I understand it, yeah, Portland’s just like that.