What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT’s real financial problem isn’t revenue. ODOT’s financial crisis isn’t a result of falling revenue, instead it has been caused by massive cost overruns on highway expansion megaprojects, extravagant
The Week Observed, March 21, 2025 Read Post »
ODOT and WSDOT are over-estimating future traffic on the I-5 bridge because they’re over stated the willingness to pay for travel time savings The result will be an under-utilized, over-built I-5 bridge, and congestion on
Value of Time: Mis-estimating tolls and traffic Read Post »
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) blames its financial crisis on declining revenue from cleaner, more efficient cars. The reality is that the agency suffers from chronic overspending on highway megaprojects. Motor fuel revenue is
OregonDOT’s real financial problem isn’t revenue. It’s mega project cost overruns Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week Pretending Work-from-Home Never Happened. Oregon and Washington highway department’s are planning for a $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Project based on assumptions that pretend that the Covid pandemic and work-from-home
The Week Observed, March 14, 2025 Read Post »
The Interstate Bridge Project’s traffic projections pretend that the massive shift to “work-from-home” never happened The IBR traffic projections rely almost entirely on pre-Covid-pandemic data, and ignore the dramatic change in travel patterns. Traffic onÂ
IBR: Pretending work-from-home never happened Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week Outdated rules of thumb put a thumb on the scale:Â Many common land use and transportation planning “rules of thumb” produce harmful results by systematically biasing our built environment
The Week Observed, March 7, 2025 Read Post »
