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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...
What City Observatory Did This Week Outdated rules of thumb put a thumb on the scale: Many common land use and transportation planning “rules of thumb” produce harmful results by...
Gentrification: 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,...
Some commonly used “rules of thumb” produce very bad results We all know and use rules of thumb. They’re handy for simplifying otherwise difficult problems and quickly making reasonably prudent...
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....
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...