Portland to ban gas-powered delivery vehicles
from 16 blocks downtown
KOIN-TV [Portland, OR],
by
Amanda Arden
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/25/2023 8:24:03 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland is about to be one of the first cities in the U.S. with blocks dedicated as a zero-emission delivery zone, thanks to a $2 million grant the city received. The Portland Bureau of Transportation announced Tuesday that the money will support creating a 16-block area in downtown where all deliveries must be made using zero-emission vehicles. These vehicles can include electric vans and trucks, cargo bikes or hydrogen-fueled vehicles. The goal is to reduce traffic from heavy trucks in the downtown area. According to PBOT, the pilot program of the zero-emission delivery zone will be located near
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 4/25/2023 8:35:59 PM (No. 1456279)
A city in rapid decline sends a virtue signal. The little Hitlers in Portland city government must feel really good about themselves over this.
I am happy for them. /sar
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nashman 4/25/2023 8:40:06 PM (No. 1456281)
This is too funny. Grocery delivery trucks: Sorry only gas power. No food for you. Gasoline trucks: Sorry only gas powered. No gasoline for you. Power company trucks: Only gasoline powered. Can’t fix the power line. No electricity for you. This is going to be hilarious. Pass the popcorn.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 4/25/2023 8:41:36 PM (No. 1456283)
What happens if the folks that make deliveries just never show up? Or guys on peddle bikes charge $100 a mile?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Califedup 4/25/2023 8:42:39 PM (No. 1456284)
Why doesn't the Air Force carpet bomb Portland into rubble and just finish the job that the communist death democrats are doing to their own city more quickly. The end result will be the same. At what point does no food deliveries get banned and mass starvation sets in? Insanity is the norm in Portland.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 4/25/2023 8:45:43 PM (No. 1456286)
I lived in eastern Oregon from 1980 to 2015. We spent a lot of time camping in the most beautiful places around Hells Canyon. We moved to Idaho because of my husband's job, but I would never go back there because of the State government. It's so sad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/25/2023 8:45:53 PM (No. 1456287)
#4, that could never happen. Ukraine has all of the USAF bombs.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/25/2023 8:46:43 PM (No. 1456288)
I think they ought to ban any gas powered vehicle from the whole city.
Dumb bass tards would deserve the consequences.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 4/25/2023 8:56:57 PM (No. 1456294)
What a great idea!. Without a doubt folks will be moving there in droves to escape the terrible air pollution that is literally Killing the rest of us. May they all live there happily forever after.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pythonmonty 4/25/2023 8:57:28 PM (No. 1456295)
Maybe start small by cleaning the feces off of the sidewalks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ironchefw 4/25/2023 9:04:29 PM (No. 1456300)
Return to the Stone Age, cretins!
To save water, continue not bathing.
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Oh yeah..... that'll help.
Helpful hint for the city of Portland: fund the police, to the fullest extent.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 4/25/2023 9:16:24 PM (No. 1456308)
So the pollution from gasoline trucks 17 blocks away won't drift downtown?
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Just another stupid and boneheaded idea in a very long list of same. They are just so stupid. Do they not think about all the people that live in that 16 mile radius who have normal vehicles? When City Hall has problems with power outages thanks to this, I think the rest of us are going to laugh ourselves silly at the stupidity of Portland. No longer the city of Roses, but the city of Stupid.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/25/2023 9:20:46 PM (No. 1456310)
Good. That will put the final nail in Portland’s coffin.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/25/2023 9:21:38 PM (No. 1456312)
A $2 million grant courtesy of US taxpayers, no doubt as part of the inflation reduction act, thank you so much. What are they going to do when the money runs out and they discover that operating electric trucks is much more expensive than using something normal?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 4/25/2023 9:27:40 PM (No. 1456316)
UPS, FED EX, DHL and all the others should give Portland the finger. Do that and the Democrats running the city would get religion in a hurry.
15 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/25/2023 9:45:43 PM (No. 1456336)
#13, that's a 16-block area, not 16 mile radius.
Something like 4 blocks x 4 blocks, or 2 blocks x 8 blocks.
Not going to be much "constructin' " going on there, I don't think there are any electric concrete trucks, bulldozers, power shovels and the like.
Don't tell the City Council that human exhalations contain CO-2, or they will ban that also.
But CO-2 from buildings being burned by Antifa will still be OK.
.... which reminds me.... anyone seen any electric-powered Fire Trucks recently?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
padiva 4/25/2023 9:56:19 PM (No. 1456345)
Sorry, no Doordash meals.
What will happen when they run out of OPM?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
janjan 4/25/2023 10:47:07 PM (No. 1456364)
But the homeless smoking crack and peeing on the sidewalk are fine. If you complain about that you are a racist. Ok
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
velirotta 4/25/2023 10:49:53 PM (No. 1456365)
Just when you think the idiots in Portland couldn't possibly think of anything more stupid, they come up with this specimen of idiocy. No wonder we here in eastern Oregon towns are absorbing a host of refugees from that hell-hole.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 4/25/2023 11:09:56 PM (No. 1456367)
OK, just announce that your company will no longer deliver in that zone.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/26/2023 12:32:21 AM (No. 1456395)
Portland 'leaders' are expecting all those homeless people to take manual labor jobs carrying deliveries into downtown Portland...lolololol!!!!
7 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 4/26/2023 5:31:37 AM (No. 1456443)
Stores will have to acquire electric vehicles to carry their product on the "last leg" into the city.
A price increase of 50% should cover that cost.
6 people like this.
Absurdistan.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 4/26/2023 7:20:37 AM (No. 1456478)
The goal is to reduce heavy trucks in the downtown area? Wrong move. E trucks are heavier, per pound of cargo, than gas trucks.
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Big whoop! Portlands downtown is dead.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
proactus 4/26/2023 7:37:39 AM (No. 1456491)
The wall around Portland will be built with the pallets of undelivered goods.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
paral04 4/26/2023 7:57:39 AM (No. 1456507)
There will be a lot of unhappy people living in those areas. I doubt if moving vans moving people from any distance will be E'v's, nor grocery vans.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
learner 4/26/2023 7:58:22 AM (No. 1456508)
Maybe time to start a buggy whip factory for all the horse drawn wagons they will need for these deliveries. They obviously won't mind the poop on the streets.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/26/2023 8:08:44 AM (No. 1456519)
And just who is going to enforce this silly law? We know the Portland Police has been heavily defunded and manpower attrition has been huge.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
hershey 4/26/2023 8:52:17 AM (No. 1456573)
Someone ought to tell these azzzholes to stop digging the hole....My son has a friend in Portland and I can't understand why he stays....
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
pmcclure 4/26/2023 9:35:00 AM (No. 1456620)
However, criminals and vagrants are welcomed with open arms.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/26/2023 9:44:59 AM (No. 1456631)
sooo...they are gonna spend $2million to lease a parking lot, ALL deliveries to that 16 blocks must stop at the lot, offload(while the engines are idling) and some third/fourth party "Clean" delivery contractor has to come pick the stuff up and dash down the block, paper work done on both ends because "Chain of Custody", additional security required, LOTS of it, (snatch thieves will be hanging out like hawks at a chicken farm). Weather there being what it is...perhaps the offload/reload space needs to be indoors? Idling vehicles inside, as well as forklifts, heating/cooling that cavernous space, day and night. Better check prevailing winds...if this transfer yard is upwind of the area ALL of the "Pollution" will still blow there
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
chagrined 4/26/2023 9:46:56 AM (No. 1456632)
So glad I got to visit Portland 20 years ago. Had a pretty good time, although the required paid attendant pumping gas for you (his sole job) was really weird. Yup, Portland will be off the list of cities to visit forever, just as New York City, Chicago, any city in Californication, etc,...
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