Last night Portland Mayor Sam Adams had quite a quandary: He was committed to going to three events and couldn’t figure out how he was going to get them all by bus. Adams has been on his self imposed “vacation” from driving his GMC Truck after he slammed into one car and kept on going near the Car Toys at Jantzen Beach.
His only “Tweet” from last night was going to the global warming meeting:

“On #17 bus to our Climate Change townhall… I hope all are ok in wake passing t-storm.

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM –
ATTEND: Climate Action
Plan Town Hall

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM –
ATTEND: Rose Festival
Foundation Admirals
Dinner
(didn’t go so he could make it in time for: see next item)

8:45 PM – 10:45 PM –
ATTEND: Ru Paul’s Drag
Race – Portland Edition

The obvious solution for his dilemma was to accept a carpool ride to the Admiral’s dinner so he could make all 3 events. He could have crawled from Hotel 50 to the Red Cap.
If my talking about it on the show last night caused a sudden reversal of his decision to dump the Admirals then good.

*Sam is free to drive again. Story here. Pull quote:

…Catherine Ciarlo, the mayor’s transportation policy adviser, said the monthlong shift to transit and biking required scheduling extra travel time. “We had to make a few other adjustments,” she said. “But they weren’t huge.”

Glad she thinks so. For the rest and as a side note, most of us don’t get paid by the city to spend the extra time it takes to get to places on transit.