Joe Cortright

Economist

[Joe Cortright @Joe_Cortright]

@dirquez I suggest the absence of a quorum (3:30 PM).

[Joe Cortright @Joe_Cortright]

@dirquez As Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat.

[Joe Cortright @Joe_Cortright]

About that special session: @OregonDOT gearing up again for that same old bait and switch: Plead pothole poverty to get more money, then spend it on billion-dollar-a-mile megaprojects, consultants and debt. https://t.co/a00Sr6KaGO

[Joe Cortright @Joe_Cortright]

https://t.co/BVGx2R3xmo
There’s no requirement ODOT use its $290 million to fix roads, watch for "bait and switch" to divert it to megaprojects & cost overruns.
Accountability measures are meaningless
It repeals a congestion pricing on Portland freeways, a key climate policy

[Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn]

It's Morning in America

[Seattle Streets Alliance @SNGreenways]

"2/3 of Seattle’s greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, with 9/10 of those carbon dioxide molecules coming from cars… The levy’s proposed investments are out of balance for a city that has committed to more than 2x transit ridership by 2030"
https://t.co/SlGuzk6aMV

[Wendy and Lucy @WendyLucy]

@Alexruoff https://t.co/qYnFMrf5gr

[Charles Marohn @clmarohn]

Yes, this is absolutely terrifying! (not)

Traffic engineers think you are idiots. When you treat people like idiots, they act like idiots. This design treats people like humans and, guess what? They act like humans.

(Note: humans try and avoid crashes.)

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

"Fire departments are consistently the most vocal opponents of any proposed road diets, including sidewalks, bus lanes, and bike lanes. This is despite the fact that fire departments spend more time responding to car crashes than fires." @bhargreaves
https://t.co/32x3zHCBEx

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Renault is putting its Level 4 autonomous busses into production. If you don't see the clear opportunity for autonomous vehicles to be used in public transit, you should really try to step out of your echo chamber. This will be a game-changer.

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

"Why did cities spend SO much on half-assed highway caps that did a pretty marginal job stitching back together neighborhoods when Rochester had already demonstrated benefits of ripping out highways instead?" is a question our frustrated descendants will be asking for a long time

[Joe Cortright @Joe_Cortright]

@DanielKayHertz Congrats!

[Jeff Speck @JeffSpeckFAICP]

https://t.co/ndzhARMj9Q

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The war has always been on cities. After WWII, US DOTs demolished neighborhoods and hollowed city centers in order to make way for the car. These mid-century highways divide communities, generate noise and air pollution and are vectors of illness, injury and death to this day.

[Joe Cortright @Joe_Cortright]

@bellachu10 Hell is other people's cars.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

When contemplating “war” it’s helpful to consider who is doing the killing and who is doing the dying. Cars are inanimate objects used to wage war on PEOPLE. People on foot (and bikes) are dying at the highest rate in 40 years. There is no war on cars. There is only self defense.

[Rob Steinernomics 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Steinernomics]

I think people’s brains are fried from 11 years of a majority of CPI prints coming in below 2%.

[Joe Cortright @Joe_Cortright]

@oeconline @nomorefreeways Thanks OEC!

[Alan Fisher @alanthefisher]

Cities that are serious about zero emission technologies install and invest in proven technologies like Trolley Buses, while immature transit agencies and cities still chase after half-assed techno-bandAids like battery buses.
Congrats to Vancouver for being smarter than most