We’ve estimated the incidence of Covid-19 by county in states with 200 or more cases as of March 19, 2020. Incidence is calculated as diagnosed cases per 100,000 population. Data are shown for counties with 100,000 population or more. Highlights:…
What City Observatory this week 1. Cheap gas means more pollution and more road deaths. Russia and Saudi Arabia have engineered a big decline in oil prices in the past few weeks, and as a result, US gas prices are…
The Coronavirus pandemic is already worse in several American states than anywhere in China outside Hubei Province The pandemic is all about geography, and we need to do more to pinpoint hotspots and contagion The very thing that makes cities…
Oregon’s Department of Transportation concedes it was lying about crashes on I-5 at the Rose Quarter For more than a year, we and others have been calling out the Oregon Department of Transportation for its false claims wider freeways are…
We know what’s responsible for declining bus ridership: Cheap gas And now, its about to get worse, thanks to $30 a barrel oil Prices matter. Last Friday’s New York Times has a nice data-driven article by the paper’s very smart…