Oregon’s planning rules require Portland area transportation plans to prioritize investments that reduce vehicle miles traveled Metro’s adopted Regional Transportation Plan devotes most of its resources to providing additional capacity for car travel Metro’s own
How Metro’s RTP Illegally favors car travel and violates climate rules Read Post »
Must Read Portland advocates sue to block Rose Quarter Freeway widening. There’s a new chapter in the long-running battle to block the Oregon Department of Transportation’s I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway widening project, a 10-lane mile
The Week Observed, August 16, 2024 Read Post »
Must Read Induced Demand and Climate Denial. As we’ve long said, the favorite folk tale of state DOTs and highway boosters is the idea that the primary solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is lowering
The Week Observed, August 2, 2024 Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week The cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) is going up: But we won’t tell you how much . . . And we’re not going to tell you until a
The Week Observed, July 26, 2024 Read Post »
The cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) is going up: But we won’t tell you how much . . . And we’re not going to tell you until a year from now, after the 2025
Hiding the growing cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement Read Post »
Must Read Denser cities = Less expensive infrastructure. A new study from New Zealand confirms one of the fundamental intuitions about cities: Places with higher levels of residential density have lower per capita and per
The Week Observed, July 19, 2024 Read Post »
