The Interstate Bridge Replacement project, which is tasked with replacing a bridge that connects Washington and Oregon, is facing alarming delays, cost escalations and seemingly deceptive behavior from officials. These problems are symptoms of broader issues in North American transportation spending.
Read MoreThey say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Oregon policymakers seem to disagree, as they plan to pour $30 million of taxpayer money into reviving container shipping services at the Port of Portland…even though it’s been a consistent economic failure.
Read MoreThe Interstate 5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project in Oregon is the poster child for how departments of transportation deceptively package harmful highway expansion projects.
Read More#BlackFridayParking is approaching, and we want to share some of the latest cities in North America that have challenged decades-old parking requirements that have wasted productive land on automobile storage.
Read MoreWanting to encourage people toward using bikes for transportation is all fine and good, but not when it makes it harder for developers to build much-needed housing.
Read MoreArmed with paint and traffic cones, this Local Conversation group in Portland, OR, made a dangerous intersection safer to cross…in only 80 minutes!
Read MoreA billion bollards! That’s what we called for back in 2021—and one Strong Towns Local Conversation is answering the call. Now the Oregon Department of Transportation just needs to get onboard.
Read MoreThe I-5 Rose Quarter project is proving to be extremely costly, and those costs are directly related to the excessive width of the project—something that ODOT has gone to great lengths to conceal.
Read MoreODOT maintains it will use tolls to pay for the I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway widening project, but that it doesn’t need to evaluate tolling as part of the project’s environmental assessment, because tolling isn’t “reasonably foreseeable.”
Read MoreFor some, the Reconnecting Communities Program symbolizes an auspicious reversal of values that have characterized the past 70 years of transportation planning. For others, it's business as usual.
Read MoreODOT’s expansion of I-205—and subsequent tolling—might make it so that the average household will be spending 8.7% of their household income on transportation needs.
Read MoreThe maintenance backlog excuse should not be the end of the conversation—it should be the start of a new one.
Read MoreIn the past, urban renewal projects have displaced people and destroyed neighborhoods, yet Portland’s Cully neighborhood aims to launch an urban renewal plan…but this time, in a good way?
Read MoreWe've said it'll take 39 years for Salem, OR, to recoup the money they're spending on the McGilchrist Street “Improvement” Project, and you've asked us to provide more proof for this assertion. So, let's do the math.
Read MoreSometimes, it’s worth it to take a step back from national news and pay attention to the things that are happening in your own community.
Read MoreFinally, homes for people will no longer be conditional on car parking.
Read MoreOregon’s statewide land use board declared its support Thursday for rules that, among other things, reduce or remove parking mandates in 53 jurisdictions in the state’s eight largest metro areas.
Read MoreThe halting of three in-city freeway expansions highlights a new momentum on reversing the damage of highways through urban areas.
Read MorePortland and Oregon leaders shouldn’t commit to a $5-billion project without an investment grade analysis (IGA) of toll revenues.
Read MoreThe Oregon DOT has experienced massive cost overruns on all of its largest construction projects…and has systematically concealed and understated the frequency and scale of those cost overruns.
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