Happy Earth Day, Oregon! Let’s spend billions widening freeways!
Despite legal pledges to reduce greenhouse gases to address climate change, Oregon’s transportation greenhouse gas emissions are going up, not down. | City Observatory
The Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) project is once again delaying releasing a new cost estimate. It’s an ominous sign that the cost is going to be much, much higher.| City Observatory
New and Improved ODOT! Now with “accountability*”| City Observatory
Score this round for the Detroit freeway fighters: For years the Michigan Department of Transportation has been trying to sell the city and neighborhoods on rebuilding I-375, a roadway that devastated historically Black neighborhoods in Detroit. Now, to use the preferred highway department euphemism, they’ve “paused” the proposed reconstruction.| City Observatory
America’s unshakeable belief in a non-existent trend in murder. File this under extreme cognitive dissonance. As we have always pointed out at City Observatory, the data shows decades of steady decreases in crime in US cities. By every measure, but especially by murder rates, crime is vastly lower now than it was in the 80s or 90s. Despite a blip in disorder and crime in the wake of the pandemic, crime rates are again continuing to decline, almost everywhere. But survey research s...| City Observatory
HB 2025 doesn’t fix the Oregon Department of Transportation’s financial problem—it makes it even bigger| 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
A new report purports to provide a roadmap for accountability at the Oregon Department of Transportation. In short, its a work of conflicted consultants, with a long history of cost overruns and excessive spending, offering slightly recycled versions of measures that have failed to control costs for the past decade.| City Observatory
Despite legal pledges to reduce greenhouse gases to address climate change, Oregon’s transportation greenhouse gas emissions are going up, not down. | City Observatory
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