Widening I-5 actually increased crashes, instead of reducing them, and an even wider freeway won’t be less congested if crashes don’t decline. We’re going to dig deep into Portland’s proposed freeway-widening controversy today, and in
A wider freeway won’t reduce traffic Read Post »
Spending half a billion dollars to widen a mile of I-5 will have exactly zero effect on daily congestion. The biggest transportation project moving forward in downtown Portland isn’t something related to transit, or cycling
Rose Quarter freeway widening won’t reduce congestion Read Post »
If you’re serious about dealing with climate change, the last thing you should do is spend billions widening freeways. April 22 is Earth Day, and to celebrate, Oregon is moving forward with plans to drop
Happy Earth Day, Oregon! Let’s Widen Some Freeways! Read Post »
Attention freeway builders! Want to make up for dividing the community and destroying neighborhoods? How about replacing the homes you demolished? One of the carefully crafted talking points in the sales pitch for the $450
Housing reparations for Northeast Portland Read Post »
A key design element of the supposedly pedestrian friendly Rose Quarter freeway cover is a pedestrian hostile diverging diamond interchange One of the main selling points of the plan to spend nearly half a billion
Diverging diamond blues Read Post »
Concrete covers are just a thinly-veiled gimmick for selling wider freeways As you’ve read at City Observatory, and elsewhere (CityLab, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week), Portland is in the midst of a great freeway war. The
The great freeway cover-up Read Post »
