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Alaska, North Dakota, and Alberta Oil in the Era of COVID
Alaska, North Dakota, and Alberta Oil in the Era of COVID-19. How the places that supply oil to Cascadia are reacting to the market collapse.Read more » -
How to Unclog Traffic and Improve Equity in Seattle
Critics of congestion pricing argue that the policy favors the rich and hurts the poor. A new proposal to break gridlock in downtown Seattle offers a progressive approach to get traffic moving. Few low-income households would pay the toll and the revenues from higher-income households could put free, multi-modal transit passes in the hands of low- and moderate-income people who travel to downtown. Workers in downtown Seattle—Cascadia’s biggest jobs hub—who...Read more » -
Commuters Would Come Out Ahead with Rush-Hour Tolls
The Seattle Times recently tested public opinion on the idea of imposing tolls to reduce congestion and, oh my, people hate it! In January, the Times reported that 70 percent of voters in Cascadia’s biggest city oppose or strongly oppose “a toll to go into downtown Seattle as a way to reduce congestion and raise money for transit.” Polling numbers like that might cause an ambitious politician like Seattle Mayor...Read more » -
Cascadia Midterm Election Results 2018: Candidate Edition
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Cascadia Midterm Election Results 2018: Ballot Measure Edition
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Part 2: Your Car of the Future is No Car at All
In part 1, I laid out the immense potential for good that Transportation as a Service (TaaS) offers. A future where most private cars give way to taxi rides provided by fleets of smart, autonomous, electric vehicles would be good for our health and safety, our pocketbooks, our economic competitiveness, our climate, and our local environment. But this promise comes with certain risks. They’re avoidable, but not without effort. Today:...Read more » -
Of Cascadia’s Big Cities, Who’s Tops in Bikeways?
It only takes a few minutes talking to transport honchos in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC, to get a sense of the intense, if friendly, competition among their cities to be king of the cycling hill. But in many ways the three largest urban centers of Cascadia form one big, soggy petri dish of experimentation in bike infrastructure. All three are North American leaders in prioritizing complete streets and bicycle...Read more » -
How Making Polluters Pay Could Fix Oregonians’ Local Potholes
Oregon’s Constitution holds a rude surprise for climate crusaders: Article IX prevents the state from investing revenue from transportation sector polluters—nearly half the potential climate pollution revenue in Oregon—in solar panels, bikes, and buses. The constitution funnels pollution revenue exclusively into the Highway Fund. Using pollution revenue to build new highways that induce more driving, thus generating more pollution, would create… a climate-change facepalm. But this ominous constitutional cloud has...Read more » -
The Oil Industry’s California Playbook
Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on Oil Check Northwest. Last week, after intense lobbying from the oil industry, California legislators killed part of a bill that would have set a landmark goal of decreasing statewide petroleum use by 50 percent by 2030. After millions of dollars of furious Big Oil lobbying, legislators dropped the petroleum requirement from the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act (SB 350). While...Read more » -
Weekend Reading 9/11/15
Kristin Lessig raised $1 million and is running as a referendum presidential candidate to Fix Democracy First. His “Citizen Equality Act” mirrors Sightline’s democracy work! It aims to embody the idea that, in a democracy, every citizen is equal, using a three-pronged strategy: (1) every citizen has equal freedom to vote, (2) every citizen should get equal representation in Congress, achieved through multi-member districts and ranked choice voting (sound familiar?),...Read more »