EX-BLAZERS' HOME COURT: PORTLAND

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  1. Sean.ivity

    Sean.ivity Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Ha perfect timing for this, I work for amazon and just delivered to a Martell Webster and was going to come here and asked if he lives in town. With the name and size of the house i will take a guess and say it was his house, lol.
     
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    More will now that weed is legal
     
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    Orion Bailey Forum Troll

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    So when I was in college, I wanted to be a cop and one of the things they had me take was a ... crap. I forget. It was a Political Science classs based on urban growth and traffic congestion. The professor centered his course around Puget Sound Traffic.

    There is no fix. You are right. IT's beyond fed up up there no doubt about it. Up there you have people from Kent commuting to Redmond and people in Redmond commuting to Sea-Tac and people in federal way commuting to Renton, etc. etc. etc. Its truly a sloppy spaghetti factory up there.
     
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  4. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    I could see it when we lived up their in the 1980s. It was already bad and it was like they had just given up. Rather than attempting to make it better, they just kept charging ahead making the same mistakes over and over.

    Portland was exactly the opposite They had started planning ahead way back in the early 1970s (even earlier in some ways). Compared to what the city is now, back in 1973, when Ton McCall signed a bill creating the Land Conservation and Development Commission, Portland was a relatively small city with a dying timber based economy. Yet, they were still planning ahead for managing the inevitable future growth.

    We owe our current quality of life to forward thinkers like Ton McCall and Oswald West.

    BNM
     
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    Orion Bailey Forum Troll

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    Best planned city in the US?

    SLC.
     
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  6. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Technically, at the time it was planned it wasn't a US city.

    BNM
     
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    True. Ever been there? Streets are twice as wide as NYC.
     
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    Where would you go if you had no one?
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    I haven't spent a lot of time in Salt Lake City, but I have driven through on 1-15 many times. The only time traffic was bad was during all the construction leading up to the 2000 Winter Olympics. For about a year and a half, rush hour traffic was as bad there as anywhere else as they were repaving and widening the major freeways to get the city ready for the Olympics.

    BNM
     
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    I agree that we're lucky to have the UGB, but one unfortunate side affect is that it inflates housing prices. So, just like what has happened with the rise of super commuters in Seattle and the Bay Area is has now happening in Portland and gets worse every day. People who work in the Portland area but can't afford to live there move down valley to places like Salem, etc. I commuted from Wilsonville to Salem for over 28 years and the "diurnal" increases in traffic to and from south of Portland have been amazing. I have no doubt it noticeably contributes to the traffic situation and I think that gets ignored sometimes by local urban planners.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Those wide streets were from the 19th century, not the fertile minds of more modern urban planners. Brigham Young supposed ly decreed the streets were to be wide enough for a wagon and team of oxen to turn around in. His inadvertent gift to 21st century traffic I guess........
     
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    Hey! We have the most strip clubs per capita in the nation and aint nobody gonna diminish that amazing fact!
     
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    I blame @Orion Bailey s driving. I live here in the suburbs and it used to take me a hour to get to work. The traffic didn't get bad, until I got around where he lives....
     
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    That's why I was surprised that Rasheed, Damon and J.R. Rider weren't on the list.
     
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    I think Rasheed and Damon are coaching
     
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    Because when they heard it passed, they wanted to uproot the whole family to portland

    because of weed.

    Right.
     
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    Traffic is better than LA...so what it rains a little
     
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