What City Observatory Did This Week Forecasting the impossible: The case for the $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement project is based on deeply flawed traffic models that ignore the bridge’s capacity limits, and predict plainly
The Week Observed, October 18, 2024 Read Post »
The case for the $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement project is based on deeply flawed traffic models that ignore the bridge’s capacity limits, and predict plainly unrealistic levels of traffic growth if the bridge isn’t
IBR: Forecasting the impossible Read Post »
The case for the $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement Project is based on traffic projections from Metro’s “Kate” travel demand model. But there’s a huge problem: Kate doesn’t accurately model even current levels of traffic.Â
Kate: Metro’s wildly inaccurate model overstates current traffic levels Read Post »
The Interstate Bridge Replacement Project simply can’t tell the truth about current traffic levels or recent growth rates. IBR reports inflate the current level of traffic on I-5 bridges by nearly 5,000 vehicles per day
The Interstate Bridge Project’s Flawed Traffic Data Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week There’s no evidence of a housing bubble. Strong Towns Chuck Marohn has a recent blog post proclaiming that the US housing market is the midst of another bubble, similar
The Week Observed, August 30, 2024 Read Post »
Another housing bubble? Strong Towns Chuck Marohn argues that we’re in the midst of another housing bubble. He claims the housing market is full of fraud and is a bubble that’s “ready to pop,” just
Another housing bubble brewing? Not really Read Post »
