How can we trust Metro’s model to predict the future, when it can’t even match the present?| City Observatory
The case for the $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement Project is based on traffic projections from Metro’s “Kate” travel demand model. But there’s a huge problem: Kate doesn’t accurately model even current levels of traffic. | City Observatory
Oregon and Washington have commissioned not just one forecast of future traffic levels on I-5 and I-205, but three different forecasts.| City Observatory
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT’) has a big management problem: huge cost overruns on highway mega-projects. Just three Portland area highway projects—The Interstate Bridge Replacement, the I-5 Rose Quarter freeway widening and the I-205 Abernethy Bridge have chalked up cost overruns totaling $4.8 billion in just the past five years.| City Observatory
Just 13 months after raising the price of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) project by more than 50 percent, the state DOTs ay it will cost even more| City Observatory
The Oregon Department of Transportation is launching a series of boondoggle freeways, with no idea of their ultimate cost, and issuing bonds that will obligate the public to pay for expensive and un-needed highways.| City Observatory
Traffic levels are going down on the I-5 bridges connecting Portland and Vancouver, even as the Oregon and Washington Transportation Departments are proposing a massive expansion that could end up costing $10 billion.| City Observatory
IBR is once again delaying releasing a new cost estimate for the Interstate Bridge Project. It’s an ominous sign that the cost is going to be much, much higher.| City Observatory