The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) blames its financial crisis on declining revenue from cleaner, more efficient cars. The reality is that the agency suffers from chronic overspending on highway megaprojects. Motor fuel revenue is
OregonDOT’s real financial problem isn’t revenue. It’s mega project cost overruns Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week Pretending Work-from-Home Never Happened. Oregon and Washington highway department’s are planning for a $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Project based on assumptions that pretend that the Covid pandemic and work-from-home
The Week Observed, March 14, 2025 Read Post »
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 change in travel patterns. Traffic onÂ
IBR: Pretending work-from-home never happened Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week Outdated rules of thumb put a thumb on the scale:Â Many common land use and transportation planning “rules of thumb” produce harmful results by systematically biasing our built environment
The Week Observed, March 7, 2025 Read Post »
Gentrification: Â Here’s your all-purpose list, from artists to zoning, of who and what’s to blame We first published this list in 2019, but the realm of suggested scapegoats has expanded, and now includes fire, gray
Our 2025 list from A to Z of everything that causes gentrification Read Post »
Some commonly used “rules of thumb” produce very bad results We all know and use rules of thumb. They’re handy for simplifying otherwise difficult problems and quickly making reasonably prudent decisions. We know that we
Rules of thumb put a thumb on the scale Read Post »
