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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 twenty-five…
The $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement Project’s two-decade old “Purpose and Need” statement is simply wrong, and provides an invalid basis for the project’s required Environmental Impact Statement. Contrary to…
What City Observatory Did This Week There’s a critical flaw in the planning of the $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge project: Metro’s Kate travel demand model is wildly inflating I-5 traffic…
How can we trust Metro’s model to predict the future, when it can’t even match the present? Metro’s Kate travel demand model, used to plan the $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge,…
Traffic modeling is guided by a series of professional and administrative guidelines. In the case of the proposed $7.5 Interstate Bridge Replacement Project, IBR and Metro modelers did not follow…
To hear project officials tell it, traffic projections emerge from the immaculate and objective Metro “Kate” traffic model But in reality, IBR traffic projections are not the outputs of the…