It’s a long road to redressing inequality Fifty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed the stilted rhetoric used use to talk about public spending to promote the social good: Whenever the government provides
Dr. King: Socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week A reporter’s guide to congestion cost studies. For more than a decade, we and others have been taking a close, hard and critical look at congestion cost reports generated
The Week Observed, January 13, 2023 Read Post »
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:Â Traffic congestion is now lower
Another flawed Inrix Congestion Cost report Read Post »
Reporters:Â read this before you write a “cost of congestion” story. Congestion cost studies are a classic example of pseudo-science:Â Big data and bad assumptions produce meaningless results Using this absurd methodology, you can show:
A reporter’s guide to congestion cost studies Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week The case against the I-5 Rose Quarter freeway widening. This week marked the end of public comment on the Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the Oregon Department of Transportation’s proposed
The Week Observed, January 6, 2023 Read Post »
Portland is weighing whether to spend as much as $1.45 billion dollars widening a mile-long stretch of the I-5 freeway at the Rose Quarter near downtown. We’ve dug deeply into this idea at City Observatory,
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