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What City Observatory Did This Week Leave the car at home, take the income.  For years, City Observatory has calculated that Portland earns a billion dollar a year “green dividend”...

Leave the car at home, take the income

Portland can earn an even bigger green dividend if it reduces the amount of driving in the region Mayor Keith Wilson makes the connection between less driving and greater prosperity...

What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT’s Deceptive Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion. For six years, the Oregon Department of Transportation has systematically concealed plans to build a massive 160-foot-wide freeway...

The proposed design of the $2.1 billion I-5 Rose Quarter Project includes two deadly hairpin freeway off-ramps. Everyone focuses on the part of the Rose Quarter than involves covering over...

What City Observatory Did This Week Portland celebrates Earth Day by dropping billions on wider freeways! Despite legal commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon’s transportation emissions have increased 5%...

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