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
The top twenty reasons to ignore TTI’s latest Urban Mobility Report Read Post »
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 »
How food carts illustrate the importance of dynamic change in cities. There’s a tension in the city between the permanent (or seemingly permanent) and the fleeting, between the immutability of the built environment and the
Portland’s food cart pod is dead, long live Portland’s food cart pods! Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week Copenhagen’s success: More than just bike lanes. Copenhagen is one of the world’s great cycling cities, and its accomplishments are a a beacon to those looking to build more
The Week Observed, August 16, 2019 Read Post »
