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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 …
Sightline Debates "War On Cars" Meme
Update: Read PubliCola’s account of what turned out to be a rollicking event. Props to all my fellow participants, and …
Get Paid to Carpool
A pilot program is launching today to help match up drivers and riders who are crossing the Highway 520 bridge …
A Better Way To Measure Walkability
Genius. If you’re not familiar with Walk Score, you should be. It’s become the de facto standard for measuring neighborhood …
Still Measuring Congestion Wrong
How is the Texas Transportation Institute like Britney Spears? Oops, they did it again. Yes, the Texas Transportation Institute released …
Northwest Bicycle Bills in 2011
Update 1/21/11, 4:35 p.m.: I’ve modified my original description of HR 1018 to correct a mistatement on my part and …
A Vacation from My Car (and Kid)
This weekend, my in-laws came to town. Which was a very happy occasion. I handed over my two-year-old daughter (and …
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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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