🚦 Portland’s new high-tech approach to speeding

Oregon Won’t End Time Changes

In a rare 15-15 deadlock, the Oregon Senate failed to end daylight saving time. You can now count on switching your clocks again — not just this year, but indefinitely. [OPB]

• Related: The Legislature previously voted to keep daylight saving time year-round, but only if Washington and California did too. And that also required federal approval. Spoiler: It hasn’t happened. [City Cast Portland 🎧]
• Related: Bills to prohibit teacher strikes and to set more lofty climate action goals are also all but dead in this year’s legislative session. [OPB]

$2 Tickets for Trail Blazers

Fans can now routinely find $2 tickets to Portland Trail Blazers games. True, the seats are in the “nosebleed” section of Moda Center. But according to a newspaper’s accounting, it’s the lowest ticket price ever. It’s a clear indication of how much the team is struggling. But maybe there’s still hope: There are new superfans sitting up high in the bleachers.

[Willamette Week]

• Related: Tickets were more expensive for at least one game. [YouTube]

‘Rest on Red’ Stop Lights

Sensors on Portland streets already help determine when to keep traffic lights green, so that cars can keep motoring. Now as part of an effort to improve safety, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is going to try a new program on Southeast Powell Boulevard to use red lights to halt speeding cars. Lights will turn red as dangerously fast cars approach in order to slow down and stop the speeders. [KOIN]

• Related: Shouldn’t our roads be less dangerous by now? [City Cast Portland 🎧]

It’s time for readers’ perspectives:

It’s Not Just the Airport That’s PDX

As you know, Portland often goes by the nickname PDX. But it turns out, that abbreviation applies not just to our beloved airport:

“Liked your story on ‘PDX.’ Note that Amtrak also uses PDX as its three-letter designation for Portland. — Bill Novak

Traffic Lights

My gripe about the cars running red lights spurred some additional responses:

“The best deterrent is traffic cameras. I fully support my tax dollars being spent on them. Without them, we have no accountability. Social pressure doesn't work well anymore due the internet's impact on our brains and an increasingly exploitative economic system. Care and compassion for others is on the decline. We need constant reminders to behave.”— JD Williams

“I've been riding a bike for transportation in Portland since 2006 (!) and I've never, ever felt so endangered on the streets as I do now. It's not just the red light running, it's the constant cell phone use and the aggression of a certain proportion of the drivers on the road. I tell my kids: if I die from being hit by a car, sue the hell out of the driver that did it, because I'm 99 percent sure it will be their fault. As an aside, my husband is a TriMet bus driver. About 30 percent of the drivers he can see from his high bus seat are on the phone while driving. Sigh.” — Leslie Carlson

Why You Need To Know the Lovejoy Columns

The Lovejoy Columns are considered to be the very first instance of street art in Portland. Hand-drawn by a Greek immigrant working in the train yards back in the late 1940s, a new project in the Central Eastside is hoping to carry on their legacy. Tiffany Conklin of the Portland Street Art Alliance explains how and why she and her group are paying tribute and preserving our city’s past.