Happy Earth Day, Everyone! If we care about equity, we need to make rapid progress on climate change Equity needs to be defined by substantive outcomes, not vacuous rhetoric and elaborate process. Ultimately equity is about outcomes, not merely process.…
What City Observatory this week 1. Taking Tubman: The Oregon Department of Transportation is planning to widen the Interstate 5 freeway in Portland into the backyard of Harriet Tubman Middle School. The $800 million widening project doubles down on the…
ODOT has claimed a “peer review panel” vindicated its air pollution analysis Now the panel says they didn’t look into the accuracy of ODOT’s travel forecast Travel forecasts are critical, because they determine air and noise pollution impacts In short: …
ODOT’s proposed I-5 Rose Quarter project would turn a school yard into a freeway The widened I-5 freeway will make already unhealthy air even worse Pollution from high volume roads has been shown to lower student achievement ODOT also proposes to…
Oregon legislation goes whole hog on highways HB 3065 would launch a whole new round of freeway boondoggles, and plunge the state into debt to pay for them The classic Robert Moses scam: Drive stakes, sell bonds The Oregon Legislature…