Metro’s multi-billion dollar transportation package does nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Spending $5 billion reduces Portland’s transportation greenhouse gases by .05 percent This package costs $50,000 per ton in reduced GHG emissions Metro Portland knows that climate change is…
Pay no attention to Zumper’s claims about rent trends Zumper claims rents for one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments are moving in opposite directions in about a fifth of all markets There’s a lot of hyperventilation in the media about falling rents…
What City Observatory did this week 1. The abject failure of Portland’s Climate Action Plan. Last month, Portland issued the final report on its 2015 Climate Action Plan. It emphasizes that the city took action on three-quarters of the items…
Portland is utterly failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, but not to worry, its ticking lots of boxes in its bureaucratic check-list. The city walks away from its 2015 Climate Action Plan after an increase in greenhouse gases,…
Auto industry consultants KPMG see fewer cars and less driving in our future That may be bad for the car business, but good for the environment and cities One clear implication: hold off building new road capacity There’s little question…