IBR’s DSEIS uses the least accurate forecast Oregon and Washington have commissioned not just one forecast of future traffic levels on I-5 and I-205, but three different forecasts. IBR officials are clinging to the one forecast that is the least accurate, and most... → By Joe Cortright 6.11.2024 Discussion |
IBR contradicts region’s climate commitments IBR Traffic Forecasts Violate Portland Region's Climate Commitments Portland's adopted Regional Transportation Plan commits the Metro area to reduce total vehicle miles traveled by 12 percent over the next twenty-five yea... → By Joe Cortright 4.11.2024 Discussion |
Needless purposes: How IBR violates NEPA The $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement Project's two-decade old "Purpose and Need" statement is simply wrong, and provides an invalid basis for the project's required Environmental Impact Statement. Contrary to ... → By Joe Cortright 1.11.2024 Discussion |
IBR: Planning for a world that no longer exists The Interstate Bridge Project's traffic projections pretend that the massive shift to "work-from-home" never happened The IBR traffic projections rely almost entirely on pre-Covid-pandemic data, and ignore the dramatic ... → By Joe Cortright 7.11.2024 Discussion |
IBR traffic modeling violates professional standards and federal rules Traffic modeling is guided by a series of professional and administrative guidelines. In the case of the proposed $7.5 Interstate Bridge Replacement Project, IBR and Metro modelers did not follow or violated these guidel... → By Joe Cortright 30.10.2024 Discussion |
IBR’s DSEIS uses the least accurate forecast
Oregon and Washington have commissioned not just one forecast of future traffic levels on I-5 and I-205, but three different forecasts. IBR officials are clinging to the one forecast that is the least accurate, and most... →
Discussion
|IBR contradicts region’s climate commitments
IBR Traffic Forecasts Violate Portland Region's Climate Commitments Portland's adopted Regional Transportation Plan commits the Metro area to reduce total vehicle miles traveled by 12 percent over the next twenty-five yea... →
Discussion
|Needless purposes: How IBR violates NEPA
The $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement Project's two-decade old "Purpose and Need" statement is simply wrong, and provides an invalid basis for the project's required Environmental Impact Statement. Contrary to ... →
Discussion
|IBR: Planning for a world that no longer exists
The Interstate Bridge Project's traffic projections pretend that the massive shift to "work-from-home" never happened The IBR traffic projections rely almost entirely on pre-Covid-pandemic data, and ignore the dramatic ... →
Discussion
|IBR traffic modeling violates professional standards and federal rules
Traffic modeling is guided by a series of professional and administrative guidelines. In the case of the proposed $7.5 Interstate Bridge Replacement Project, IBR and Metro modelers did not follow or violated these guidel... →
Discussion
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