What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT’s Deceptive Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion. For six years, the Oregon Department of Transportation has systematically concealed plans to build a massive 160-foot-wide freeway through Portland’s Rose Quarter—not the
The Week Observed, May 2, 2025 Read Post »
Editor’s Note:Â At a recent Portland City Council Committee hearing, two city commissioners challenged No More Freeways assertions that the Oregon Department of Transportation’s $1.9 billion Rose Quarter is actually building a roadway wide enough
ODOT has repeatedly concealed and lied about the width of the Rose Quarter Freeway Read Post »
The proposed design of the $2.1 billion I-5 Rose Quarter Project includes two deadly hairpin freeway off-ramps. Everyone focuses on the part of the Rose Quarter than involves covering over part of the I-5 freeway.Â
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What City Observatory Did This Week Portland celebrates Earth Day by dropping billions on wider freeways! Despite legal commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon’s transportation emissions have increased 5% since 2013, directly contradicting Portland’s
The Week Observed, April 25, 2025 Read Post »
Despite legal pledges to reduce greenhouse gases to address climate change, Oregon’s transportation greenhouse gas emissions are going up, not down. State, regional and city governments have adopted climate goals that purport to commit to
Happy Earth Day, Oregon! Let’s spend billions widening freeways! Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week Congestion pricing can work anywhere, even where there isn’t much transit. While New York City garners headlines for its congestion pricing triumph, Louisville, Kentucky demonstrates that pricing works brilliantly
The Week Observed, April 18, 2025 Read Post »
