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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%...

What City Observatory Did This Week Congestion pricing can work anywhere, even where there isn’t much transit. While New York City garners headlines for its congestion pricing triumph, Louisville, Kentucky...

New York City is getting all the attention–much deserved–for the breath-taking success of congestion pricing. Speeds are up, congestion is down, there are fewer crashes, less noise, more people on...

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...

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