In Vino Veritas. This is Latin: “If you get people to talk about the outdoor seating in a wine bar, you will soon say how you really feel about covid terraces.” Last week, Ww Reports on the emergency of living room wines, a company that spent 11,000 US dollars for a covered wooden deck to replace two parking spaces in the North Lombard Street – just to find out that the Portland Bureau of Transportation had incorrectly authorized the road seats on a state motorway. PBOT has offered to refund the $ 1,000 cost of the permit and suggested moving the structure to the sidewalk (“Red Red Tape,” WwMay 14). The answers to history quickly turned into contempt for the street drinking phenomenon. Here is what our readers had to say:
Ronzilla via Twitter: “PBOT is one of the worst city authorities. You should never have approved something for a street that you do not control.
Scheen2Me, on wweek.com: “Taxpayers cannot trust the word of the employees who are paid for the enforcement of the codes? If they lack the necessary specialist knowledge and taxpayers have to hire lawyers in order to have confidence in the codes, let us close the codes enforcement office. We have to dismiss all taxpayers.
George McCleary on Facebook: “PBOT may be the worst division of the city administration of Portland, and that is a real battle of the bureaucratic soil inhabitants.
“Reimbursement of your construction costs, approval fees and figures of punitive damage.
7 bad words, via wweek.com: “When I think about where I settle and have a nice glass of Pinot, I think … 'on a wooden palette. On the side of a busy state street. At a large intersection. Opposite a bus stop.”
Happiness from the Manwolfs, via wweek.com: “The bus emissions are supposed to clean the palate between snob swallow.”
Brian Borrello on Facebook: “Change the Lombard in Columbia as a freight route and as a designated state Highway (not yet due to the underpass of the Height under the railway in Kenton) – Lombard Safe, get the big trucks, let yourself be friends.”
Rabidblacksquirrel, via Reddit: “As many of these covid shanty patios also look extremely uncertain.” Oldflumpy in answer: “I enjoyed my time in Covid patio, although one or two drinks are necessary to believe that I am not squeezed by a bus during the meal.
“You are right that many were built, 2020 was a real moment, and there were definitely opportunists who were exploited. The worst emergency shelters now seem to be gone.”
Nopo Resident, via wweek.com: “The Covid huts are all ugly and have to go. The Mississippi Avenue looks like a shanty city.
“Portland has returned to his pattern to stick to things from which the rest of the country has moved on.”
Maxi Curls via Reddit: “The government has basically forced restaurants to build these things in order to survive during pandemic in the face of their hyperaggressive health measures.
“It could be done that the companies that were lucky enough to survive this ordeal (most of them with incredible amounts to new debts) should be forced to do them now.
“A case could also be made that the government – especially in Oregon – operates each of these restaurants in the middle of the six numbers. If I were one of these businesses, I would not give a centimeter if I would literally be arrested that the government could build these shit.
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