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From Highways to Homes: The Opportunity to Reconnect Communities Divided by Freeways
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* At its peak, federal highway construction demolished 37,000 homes a year to make way for roads. More than 1 million Americans—a significant …
Mapping Pedestrian Fatalities
From the realm of ghoulishly fascinating comes this tool, launched last month by Transportation for America: Dangerous by Design, a map of all pedestrian fatalities from 2001 to 2009. Not only does it show you where they happened, it tells you the age, gender, and race of the victim along with a photo of the street where it happened.
The Deceptions of "Miles Per Gallon"
Here in the US, we’re so used to measuring a car’s efficiency in “miles per gallon” that it seems impossible …
Where Are My Cars: Seattle Traffic
OK, I swear, this is the last one of this series I’m going to post for a while. But a …
Gas Prices: Them's The Brakes
Via Todd Litman of the  Victoria Transport Policy Institute, two interesting studies on how drivers have reacted to the rising …
Where Are My Cars: SR-520 and I-90 Across Lake Washington
Well, this is the weirdest of our whole series on traffic trends: Â the number of cars and trucks crossing …
Stormwater Legislative Wrap Up
New rules approved by Washington’s lawmakers will cut the amount of salmon-harming copper, Â toxic coal pollutants, and algae-stoking fertilizers …
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Michael Andersen
Senior Housing Researcher and Transportation Lead.
Michael leads Sightline’s work transitioning Cascadia away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energy sources.
Catie Gould
Senior Researcher
Laura is a fellow with Sightline Institute, focused on energy policy, particularly natural gas infrastructure and building decarbonization.
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