What City Observatory did this week Must read 1. Why Detroit (and other cities) need more gentrification and congestion. Michigan Future’s Lou Glazer has a provocative essay arguing that Detroit and other struggling cities
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What City Observatory did this week 1. 20 Reasons to ignore the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report. It’s back. After a four-year hiatus Texas A&M University’s transportation institute trotted out another iteration of its
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Community opposition forces Oregon Department of Transportation to do a full Environmental Impact Statement on its half-billion dollar Rose Quarter freeway widening project. For the past two years, we’ve been deeply engaged in the unfolding
Portland’s freeway fight: Round 1 goes to the scrappy upstarts Read Post »
It’s hard to find a more biased and misleading example of pseudo-science than the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report. Here are our top 20 reasons why you should ignore the latest version. Since the
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What City Observatory did this week Portland’s food cart pods are dead; long live Portland’s food cart pods. Portland is famous as a foodie town, and one of the city’s claims to fame is having
The Week Observed, August 23, 2019 Read Post »
After a four year hiatus, the Texas Transportation Institute has once again generated its misleading Urban Mobility Report–and its still wrong. The UMR has been comprehensively debunked–it has never been peer-reviewed nor have its authors
Its back, and its still wrong: the Urban Mobility Report Read Post »
