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,
The case against the I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway widening Read Post »
The science of induced travel is well proven, but state DOTs are in utter denial Widening freeways not only fails to reduce congestion, it inevitably results in more vehicle travel and more pollution The Oregon
Flat Earth Sophistry Read Post »
ODOT’s own traffic data shows that daily traffic (ADT) has been declining for 25 years, by -0.55 percent per year The ODOT modeling inexplicably predicts that traffic will suddenly start growing through 2045, growing by
Traffic is declining at the Rose Quarter: ODOT growth projections are fiction Read Post »
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) desperately wants to build a mega-freeway through NE Portland, and is planning to double the freeway from 4 lanes to 8 or 10 lanes. But it has hidden its
The truth about Oregon DOT’s Rose Quarter MegaFreeway Read Post »
The real expense of the $5 billion I-5 bridge replacement project isn’t actually building a new bridge over the Columbia River:Â It’s widening miles of freeway and rebuilding every intersection north and south of the
The IBR project: Too much money for too many interchanges Read Post »
