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What City Observatory Did This Week Cities and the First Amendment. In order to exercise the right to assemble peaceably, people need a place to assemble, and cities provide these...
Cities and city streets are the place where we exercise our most fundamental rights. “The right of the people peacefully to assemble” guaranteed by the First Amendment only has meaning...
What City Observatory Did This Week A Non-Denial Denial: An independent traffic analysis of the proposed $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) project shows that it won’t solve the actual...
IBR and Metro effectively admit critics are right about problems with their traffic modeling The real traffic problems on I-5 are outside the IBR project area, and won’t be solved...
What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT’s “Strategic Review”: Conflicted consultants whitewashing mis-management. The Oregon Department of Transportation is again trying convince the Legislature and the public that it isn’t...
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT’) has a big management problem: huge cost overruns on highway mega-projects. Just three Portland area highway projects—The Interstate Bridge Replacement, the I-5 Rose Quarter...