Portland’s $600 million plan to wind bike lanes through the entire city has been kicked off with a $20 million infusion from the city board. The plan passed unanimously. These aren’t your crappy, bike-lanes-painted-on-the-ground that never see maintenance and serve mostly as overflow parking for cabs; they’re going to be lanes that are segregated by curbs and boulevards. It’s amazing what the West Coast can accomplish with $20 million when they don’t have to use half of it to pay off mob-run construction unions.

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