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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 …
Turning Over the New Leaf
Finally. If you don’t like being dependent on oil—but find that you do need to drive—you’ve got at least one …
Where Are My Cars: Columbia River Crossing
Continuing my obsession with the ever-mounting evidence that traffic volumes are growing much, much slower than transportation planners had expected, …
More on Who Bikes
Following up on Eric de Place’s look at some of the demographics of bicycling, We Bike Eugene has an interesting …
Rain Garden Goof in Ballard
For more than a decade, all of the eco-friendly stormwater projects that Seattle touched turned to green. The city rebuilt …
Where Are My Cars: I-5 Through Seattle
Remarkably enough, state figures show that traffic on I-5 through Seattle declined pretty steadily from 2003 through 2009. Take a …
Viaduct Diversion, By the Numbers
I think these may be the most important two sentences from the recent NelsonNygaard report on traffic diversion from Seattle’s …
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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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