Oregon’s Department of Transportation concedes it was lying about crashes on I-5 at the Rose Quarter For more than a year, we and others have been calling out the Oregon Department of Transportation for its
Oregon DOT admits it lied about I-5 safety Read Post »
We know what’s responsible for declining bus ridership: Cheap gas And now, its about to get worse, thanks to $30 a barrel oil Prices matter. Last Friday’s New York Times has a nice data-driven article
Declining bus ridership is no mystery Read Post »
Gasoline prices will drop 50 cents per gallon in the next week or so, and cheap gas will fuel more bad results: more air pollution, more greenhouse gases and more road deaths Now is the
Cheaper gas: Bad for climate and safety Read Post »
What City Observatory this week Exploding whales and cost overruns. For years, the Oregon Department of Transportation has been pushing a mile-and-a-half long freeway widening project at Portland’s Rose Quarter, telling the Legislature in 2017
The Week Observed, March 13, 2020 Read Post »
It now looks like Oregon DOT’s $450 million freeway widening project will cost over a billion dollars Whales aren’t the only than blow up on ODOT One of the most viewed clips on YouTube depict
ODOT: Exploding whales and cost overruns Read Post »
What City Observatory this week 1. The thickness of the blue line. Robert Putnam popularized the notion of social capital in his book “Bowling Alone,” which he illustrated with a number of indicators of social
The Week Observed, March 6, 2020 Read Post »
