Gentrification: Â Here’s your all-purpose list, from artists to zoning, of who and what’s to blame We first published this list in 2019, but the realm of suggested scapegoats has expanded, and now includes fire, gray
Our 2025 list from A to Z of everything that causes gentrification Read Post »
Portland transportation: PBOT is broke, the city has a $600 million annual O&M deficit, 50% of streets are in “poor or very poor” condition, and traffic deaths are up sharply. So why is spending $1.9
If we’re so broke, why are we spending $2 billion to widen a mile of freeway? Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week Profligacy for freeways, penury for city streets: Why Portland’s transportation system is broken.  There’s a glaring chasm in transportation finance in Portland. While the city is broke and half
The Week Observed, February 28, 2025 Read Post »
Highway department’s are selling multi-billion dollar highway widening projects based on flawed traffic projections. The projections prepared for the predecessor of the proposed $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement project predicted traffic would grow 1.3 percent
History shows IBR modeling is simply wrong Read Post »
What City Observatory Did This Week IBR Traffic Forecasts Violate Portland Region’s Climate Commitments.  Portland’s adopted Regional Transportation Plan commits the Metro area to reduce total vehicle miles traveled by 12 percent over the next
The Week Observed, November 9, 2024 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: Planning for a world that no longer exists Read Post »
