Another flawed Inrix Congestion Cost report Sigh. Here we are again, another year, and yet another uninformative, and actively misleading congestion cost report from Inrix. More myth and misdirection from highly numerate charlatans. Burying the lede: Traffic... → By Joe Cortright 10.1.2023 Discussion |
Blame inflation now: Lying about the latest IBR Cost Overrun The price of the I-5 "bridge replacement" project just increased by more than 50 percent, from $4.8 billion to $7.5 billion ODOT and WSDOT are blaming "higher inflation" for IBR cost overruns As we've noted, the Oreg... → By Joe Cortright 14.12.2022 Discussion |
Why won’t ODOT tell us how wide their freeway is? After more than three years of public debate, ODOT still won't tell anyone how wide a freeway they're planning to build at the Rose Quarter ODOT's plans appear to provide for a 160-foot wide roadway, wide enough to acco... → By Joe Cortright 1.12.2022 Discussion |
ODOT doesn’t care about covers, again ODOT's Supplemental Environmental Analysis shows it has no plans for doing anything on its vaunted freeway covers It left the description of cover's post-construction use as "XXX facilities" in the final, official Suppl... → By Joe Cortright 8.12.2022 Discussion |
ODOT’s I-5 Rose Quarter “Improvement”: A million more miles of local traffic ODOT's proposed relocation of the I-5 Southbound off-ramp at the Rose Quarter will add 1.3 million miles of vehicle travel to local streets each year. Moving the I-5 on ramp a thousand feet further south creates longer ... → By Joe Cortright 7.12.2022 Discussion |
Another flawed Inrix Congestion Cost report
Sigh. Here we are again, another year, and yet another uninformative, and actively misleading congestion cost report from Inrix. More myth and misdirection from highly numerate charlatans. Burying the lede: Traffic... →
Discussion
|Blame inflation now: Lying about the latest IBR Cost Overrun
The price of the I-5 "bridge replacement" project just increased by more than 50 percent, from $4.8 billion to $7.5 billion ODOT and WSDOT are blaming "higher inflation" for IBR cost overruns As we've noted, the Oreg... →
Discussion
|Why won’t ODOT tell us how wide their freeway is?
After more than three years of public debate, ODOT still won't tell anyone how wide a freeway they're planning to build at the Rose Quarter ODOT's plans appear to provide for a 160-foot wide roadway, wide enough to acco... →
Discussion
|ODOT doesn’t care about covers, again
ODOT's Supplemental Environmental Analysis shows it has no plans for doing anything on its vaunted freeway covers It left the description of cover's post-construction use as "XXX facilities" in the final, official Suppl... →
Discussion
|ODOT’s I-5 Rose Quarter “Improvement”: A million more miles of local traffic
ODOT's proposed relocation of the I-5 Southbound off-ramp at the Rose Quarter will add 1.3 million miles of vehicle travel to local streets each year. Moving the I-5 on ramp a thousand feet further south creates longer ... →
Discussion
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