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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 …
Seattle Congestion Declined by One-Third?
A nationwide traffic study just released by traffic data firm INRIX found that Seattle has the 10th worst congestion in …
Technology in Transit
A couple months back, I got a smart phone. One of the first things I downloaded was OneBusAway, an app …
Traffic Declines in Washington Counties
Following up on the post on declining traffic volumes from a few days back, I looked a bit more closely …
Sharing Your Car (in Oregon)
Oregon could become the next state to pave the way for peer-to-peer car sharing companies, which allow people to rent …
Dude, Where Are My Cars?
I think you can officially call this a pattern:Â traffic volumes all around the Pacific Northwest are falling short of …
Does Transit Really Reduce Congestion?
There’s plenty of evidence that building roads doesn’t do much to relieve congestion. Â This fairly exhaustive literature review from the …
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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.
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Laura is a fellow with Sightline Institute, focused on energy policy, particularly natural gas infrastructure and building decarbonization.
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