No word on a new contract for CATS bus drivers one week after the old contract expired. Talks are evidently still ongoing and Teamster Local 71 must be close to getting what it wants or there would have been more noise.

Still, this is an oddly quiet negotiation.

Related: Even the feds say that Portland’s “Regional Transportation Plan” is light on actual transportation. Ditto Charlotte’s grand “multi-modal,” anti-car, anti-road plans. We’re just about 15 years behind Portland, that’s all.