Roland

Thank you for finally posting something about street maintainance. While I know you and Sam are big advocates of bicycle and public transportation, there are tens of thousands of Portlanders for whom bicycle and public transportation are simply not viable alternatives.

I'm pleased to see you recognize the backlog in street maintainance, and look forward to continued posts that address the increasingly gridlocked streets faced by Portlanders.

(Just one story for illustration: with all the street construction,my wife can now travel from Eastmoreland to Washington Square Mall in only a few minutes longer than it takes her to get from Eastmoreland to downtown. That is a big problem.)