New data from TomTom shows Portland number one nationally in reducing traffic congestion: Where’s the celebration? Portland chalked up the biggest reduction in traffic congestion of any city in the US over the past year.
Portland is winning the fight against congestion! Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. When supply catches up to demand, rents go down. While stories about crazy housing markets tend to focus on big, coastal metropolitan areas, it turns out there’s a
The Week Observed: March 25, 2016 Read Post »
Yesterday, TomTom released its annual rankings of the levels of congestion in world and US cities. Predictably, they generated the horrified, self-pitying headlines about how awful congestion is in the top-ranked cities. Cue the telephoto
The beat goes on: More misleading congestion rankings from TomTom Read Post »
A new report detailing the “costs” of congestion twists the data to become little more than talking points for the highway lobby. For transportation geeks, Halloween came early this year. A new report claims that
Boo! The annual Carmaggedon scare is upon us. Read Post »
It’s frequently claimed that traffic congestion imposes high and rising costs on the economy. But is that true?
Questioning Congestion Costs Read Post »
