What City Observatory did this week 1. Why is the US killing so many pedestrians? The grim data from 2018 are now available: More than 6,200 US pedestrians were killed by automobiles last year, an
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What City Observatory did this week Homeownership is frequently a bad bet. Although homeownership gets treated as the best way to built wealth, it’s actually a highly risky financial strategy for many households, especially those
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US drivers are killing 50 percent more pedestrians, European drivers are killing a third fewer If anything else–a disease, terrorists, gun-wielding crazies–killed as many Americans as cars do, we’d regard it as a national emergency.
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A new report confirms the growing market for walkable places George Washington University and Smart Growth America have a new report on the economic value of and growing market for walkable places. Called “Foot Traffic
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What City Observatory did this week 1. It’s official: The Rose Quarter Freeway Widening is a Boondoggle. Frontier Group and USPIRG released the latest version of their annual Highway Boondoggle report, and the Oregon Department
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Frontier Group and USPIRG’s annual report on highway boondoggles calls out the Oregon DOT’s wasteful, ineffective I-5 Rose Quarter freeway widening project as a national level boondoggle. Portland is famous for making top ten lists
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