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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 …
Portland’s Scooter Tax Is Super High, and That’s Fine
If car-dependent cities are bad, and they are, then shared e-scooters are good. You may have heard that private shared …
Listen In: KUOW’s ‘The Record’ on Living Car-Free in Seattle
On Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to allow more parking-free development in the city. Council members characterized the changes …
Video: Ensuring Safety with Self-Driving Cars in Washington
Last month’s fatal accident involving a self-driving Uber vehicle in Arizona has raised plenty of questions about the safety of …
Who Decides If Robots Can Drive?
Editor’s note: This article is an extended version of an op-ed titled “We can’t trust the autonomous-car industry to self-regulate” …
Are Robo-Taxis the Only Way to Get Transportation Off Oil Fast?
[content_box type=”border” button='{“url”:”http://www.sightline.org/2018/02/27/video-autonomous-electric-vehicles-and-their-future-in-cascadia/”,”title”:”Watch video”}’]Watch Daniel Malarkey’s appearance on Q13’s newscast in which he discusses the future of autonomous electric vehicles.[/content_box] …
Video: Autonomous Electric Vehicles and Their Future in Cascadia
Sightline fellow Daniel Malarkey has already made the case for why Cascadia could thrive by embracing fleets of autonomous electric vehicles, …
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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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