Monday, April 18, 2016

Street Roots survey turns up differing priorities in mayor’s race

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Mayoral candidates Ted Wheeler, left, and Bim Ditson.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)

Street Roots, Portland’s first-rate paper about homelessness and housing issues, sometimes asks questions about the closely related subject of transportation.

A questionnaire distributed to the mayoral candidates and published last week includes a quick window into the ways different candidates think about mobility issues.

The question:

Please place the following items in order of priority as mayor.

• Increase parking
• Bike infrastructure
• Low­ or no-fare public transit

Here’s what they said:

Jules Bailey

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking

Patty Burkett

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking

Sean Davis

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike lanes
3. Increase parking


Bim Ditson

1. Bike infrastructure
2. Low- or no-fare public transit
3. Increase parking

Deborah Harris

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Increase parking
3. Bike infrastructure

Sarah Iannarone

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Make downtown a car-free zone

David Schor

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking

Jessie Sponberg

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking

Ted Wheeler

1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking

So, to recap:

• Only one candidate, Ditson, put bike infrastructure above cheap transit.
• Only one candidate, Harris, put bike infrastructure below more auto parking.
• Only one candidate, Iannarone, decided that she was so strongly against increasing auto parking that she would refuse to put it on her list at all.

— Michael Andersen, (503) 333-7824 – michael@bikeportland.org

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