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What City Observatory Did This Week HB 2025:  The Oregon Legislature’s “transportation package” simply doesn’t add up:  The bill promises more than $5 billion in mega-projects but provides vastly less revenue. It doesn’t add up: 

What City Observatory Did This Week The ODOT accountability charade.  The pat political answer to the problem of chronic cost-overruns on Oregon DOT highway projects running into the hundreds of millions of dollars is that

What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT hiding cost overruns.  Despite widespread bloviation about the need for “accountability,” the Oregon Department of Transportation is simply, and inexplicably, unaccountable for the spiraling cost of its largest

What City Observatory Did This Week Still Unaccountable:  Oregon’s highway department has a cost overrun problem, so naturally they hired consultants to fix it. The twist? Those same consultants have their own impressive track record

What City Observatory Did This Week Unaccountable.  The Oregon Department of Transportation is unaccountable for routine cost overruns on major highway projects.  Nothing it has done has acknowledged or solved this decades old problem, and

What City Observatory Did This Week Seattle just put the finishing touches on a new 2.7 mile subway connecting some of its hottest neighborhoods:  unfortunately, its only built to carry stormwater runoff, not people, even

What City Observatory Did This Week Leave the car at home, take the income.  For years, City Observatory has calculated that Portland earns a billion dollar a year “green dividend” because it enables local residents

What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT’s Deceptive Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion. For six years, the Oregon Department of Transportation has systematically concealed plans to build a massive 160-foot-wide freeway through Portland’s Rose Quarter—not the

What City Observatory Did This Week Portland celebrates Earth Day by dropping billions on wider freeways! Despite legal commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon’s transportation emissions have increased 5% since 2013, directly contradicting Portland’s

What City Observatory Did This Week Congestion pricing can work anywhere, even where there isn’t much transit. While New York City garners headlines for its congestion pricing triumph, Louisville, Kentucky demonstrates that pricing works brilliantly