Uh, oh. It's the mythical, magical, '21-meetings', again. Boy, those must've been some meetings. I haven't seen the deployment of a single policy without a reference to these meetings. Wouldn't want the public to think special-interest, and big-business were running the show, now would we? Better say it one more time, this time with gusto! TWENTYONEMEETINGS!

I don't get it Commissioner Adams. The name of your project seems to be longer than any of its proposals. So far we know that you are going to further restrict free-access to the public right-of-way for cyclists, while characterizing these as, 'safety improvements'. So far we know that out one side of your mouth you are saying that the public is being afforded input regarding policy, while out the other side of your mouth you declare that the, 'stakeholders', will actually make it. So far we know that there is a nearly half-billion dollar fiscal deficit for transportation system maintenance, to which your solution is to implement a giant-sized proposal, so large it is going to take a 9-seat committee to oversee it.

So the oversight committee for this project is going to sit the meetings pro-bono, but what about their expenses? 9 bureaucrats can generate a lot of expenses, you know. I see that Portland tax payers are going to pick up the tab for their staff though. Neat.

"Green Discounts". Am I reading this right? Non-residential SMSF victims can get a 10%, "Discount" (Tax-break?) for using a for-profit transit system? If you are going to pay citizens to pay for riding a bus, where can I get me a bus? Is anybody at Metro one of these elusive, 'stakeholders'? It's true what they say Commissioner Adams, you are a man of the people. Well, the people standing under your new committee with a money-bucket that is.

At a time when there is such a huge deficit, do you think that, 'Safe, Sound, and Green Streets Proposal', isn't maybe a tad over-ambitious? Is now the time to introduce more taxes, while simultaneously creating tax-cuts designed to force citizens to go, 'Green'? Can the City afford those tax-cuts? If so, then why the deficit?

I'm not liking this at all. Now I have to spend the rest of the weekend going over this. Happy now? I would make a couple of requests as this morning's parting shot: I'd like to never again see you mention your 21-meetings. It's obvious that you will continue to hand-pick policy makers here in town, quit with the charade please; and in place of the non-existent, made-up word, 'stakeholders', I, for one, would prefer to see a list of names from now on. Perhaps I'm too cynical. I mean you did find time to squeeze in some work as Transportation Director, while using the office as a campaign platform for Mayor; and even while throwing some taxpayer resources at support for people affected by the Federal Court Injunction of HB2007. How do you do it?