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Looking For Tales of Portland Parking Woes

by Betsy Richter

I’m working on a piece for tomorrow about experiences parking in downtown Portland.
Yes, it’s a follow-up to this piece. Yes, it involves a towing story or two. And yes, I’ve already gotten a ton of feedback in email, thanks to a Twitter call out earlier today. But I want to [...]

01.23.2010 See the rest → 14 comments

Drive to Downtown PDX? Not Any More…

by Betsy Richter

I’ve been doing a slow burn about this for months now — but the match hit the haystack Saturday afternoon.
See, over the last few months, I’ve been trying to reduce my driving trips downtown. Between the challenges finding on-street parking, the non-functioning new smart readers, the parking tickets I’ve gotten mere [...]

11.17.2009 See the rest → 15 comments

Parking Garage Nostalgia

by CamiKaos

I was still 17 when I moved to Portland at the beginning of 1995 to live with a boyfriend who was going to college here.  I was a jaded youth but still young and simple enough to be impressed by the fact that I was living in a city as opposed to a suburb or [...]

06.22.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

No more parking on 5th and 6th

by Dieselboi

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Well, the parking honeymoon is over on 5th and 6th downtown. This morning, when walking to work, I realized it was kinda quiet and then noticed there were no cars parked on SW 5th. I also saw that over the weekend they put down lane lines all along SW 5th. [...]

09.22.2008 See the rest → 2 comments
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