Next month, the Portland Metro government is being asked to approve $36 million in additional funds for further planning of a massive freeway project. It should say no.
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Oregon’s Department of Transportation is making phony claims that widening highways reduces pollution. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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ODOT has resorted to some truly cheap and deceptive marketing tactics to promote their new freeway-widening project.
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Here’s a roundup of five highway boondoggles that are threatening neighborhoods right now in the U.S. Think of it as a hall of shame.
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Why do some cities make it so hard to find shade…or create your own?
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A malignant legacy lives on through a recent bill proposed in Oregon.
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Why do predictions of “Carmageddon” so often fail to materialize? Recent lane reductions on a major bridge in Portland may hold answers, if we pay attention.
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Big data and new technology make bold promises about solving urban problems. Not only do they fall well short of solutions, but can actually make things worse.
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Portland, Oregon has joined the ranks of cities ending their apartment bans and allowing the next increment of residential development everywhere. Here’s a run-down of why they just might have passed the best such policy yet.
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If we’re willing to learn, this experiment shows us how to fight congestion and get a more efficient transportation system.
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The Oregon Department of Transportation’s lies about safety are so blatant they can be seen 400 miles away.
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Today’s trendiest neighborhood will be tomorrow’s old news. Should this matter to a Strong Towns advocate?
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Portland diners are mourning the loss of one of the city’s largest and longest-running food cart pods. The property is being redeveloped as a 35-story high-rise. What can the death and birth of food cart pods teach us about the importance of dynamic change in cities?
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Portland diners are mourning the loss of one of the city’s largest and longest-running food cart pods. The property is being redeveloped as a 35-story high-rise. What can the death and birth of food cart pods teach us about the importance of dynamic change in cities?
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The growing movement to end exclusive single-family zoning—as Oregon just did in its cities—is not a radical or untested experiment: it’s a return to a historical norm. The actual radical experiment is the strange notion that a neighborhood should be required to contain only one type of home.
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When you want to widen an urban freeway, just call it an “improvement.” Who can be against improvement?
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If you can’t justify your half-a-billion-dollar freeway widening project with the usual argument, why not try a different one: that it will reduce crashes? Unfortunately, there’s no evidence for this either.
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Data shows Portland’s scooter experiment worked. Maybe it’s time to critically appraise the 110 year experiment with cars.
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High home prices near many of Portland, Oregon’s rail stations are essentially mandatory. On most nearby lots, dividing the land into so much as a duplex would be illegal. If that’s not a recipe for luxury housing, what is?
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Portland, OR is leading the charge in parking reform by pricing its on-street parking at a variable rate that reflects shifting demand, instead of subsidizing it.
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