Joe Cortright

@Joe_Cortright

Economist

Portland
impresaconsulting.com
Joined May 2011
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  1. Retweeted
    May 6

    Andy Singer delivers again with a great piece and a great cartoon about .

    Cartoon at engineers worshipping at the altar while a priest holds up a copy of MUTCD.
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  2. 29 Sep 2020

    Can we please have Walter Sobchak moderate the next debate?

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  3. Retweeted
    18 Aug 2020

    Gentrification isn't when developers put a 5 story apartment building on top of an abandoned Pizza Hut. Gentrification is when a small 1950s cottage sells for $935,000 because the city won't let us put a 5 story apartment building on top of an abandoned Pizza Hut.

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    11 May 2020

    If you haven't read this piece from via , I would recommend it. Embracing this crisis to learn about traffic patterns reinforces the wisdom of congestion pricing and timing demand.

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    12 May 2020

    It’s a well-known fact that roads carry more traffic, faster, when they’re not allowed to become congested.

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  6. 12 May 2020

    This is not good Oregon: # of new Covid Cases is up every day for the past week, and is now higher than any day in April. Keep your distance, everyone!

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    29 Mar 2020

    Every registered voter here in OR (+ CO, HI, UT, WA, primaries in AK, WY, KS), gets a a ballot in the mail. We vote in the comfort of our home and return by mail or drop-off. It's time for other states to pandemic-proof their elections with .

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  8. Retweeted
    25 Mar 2020

    The new word for today is “per capita.” America has tested a little more than South Korea. But we have SIX TIME MORE PEOPLE. This means that’s they have tested 1 in 170 people. We have tested 1 in 1,090 people. We’re not doing better.

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  9. Retweeted
    11 Mar 2020

    The I-45 expansion goes against everything that the city ought to be standing for, tells .

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  10. Retweeted
    16 Mar 2020

    If is good enough for Donald Trump it should be good enough for @senatemajldr. and I are introducing legislation to mandate through November. It’s never been more important to safeguard the bedrock of our democracy.

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  11. Retweeted
    27 Feb 2020

    "A new report from predicts that 6,590 pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2019, the highest number in more than 30 years."

    Sec. Chao: “Further improving traffic safety remains our greatest, ongoing transportation challenge. It is encouraging that 2018 marked the second consecutive year of declining crash fatalities. Initial data for the first three-quarters of 2019 indicate another yearly decline.”
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  12. Retweeted
    23 Feb 2020

    As a Metro Councilor, I'll use my position to challenge ODOT and the Oregon Transportation Commission to demand better investments in public transportation, biking and walking instead of more freeway expansions. Climate leaders don't widen freeways.

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  13. Retweeted
    20 Feb 2020

    Your work on this story has been extraordinary, Max, and the impact of your reporting - on our understanding of the police in West Linn, Lake Oswego and Portland - will reverberate for a long, long time.

    BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Department of Justice to take over criminal investigation into wrongful arrest of Portland black man
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  14. Retweeted
    11 Feb 2020

    Traffic demand management tools! So many options, so much potential.

    NEW PAPER: "Legal Tools for Achieving Low Traffic Zones (LTZs): LEZ, ULEZ & Congestion Pricing in the U.S. Law Context" by surveys the U.S. law landscape for congestion pricing, LEZ & street closures. Read more here:
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  15. Retweeted
    4 Feb 2020

    Yes. This. To reduce congestion we need to reduce the number of vehicles using the roads. And that means we need to give more people options to not drive a car.

    investments in biking, walking, and transit are good for reducing air pollution, good for carbon reduction, good for congestion relief, good for public health, good for reducing traffic violence too bad and want to dump billions into freeway widening
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  16. 9 Dec 2019

    Oregon highway builders have a long history of simply ignoring Portland Public Schools concerns about freeway impacts on school kids. They did in in the early 60s when they built I-5, and they're doing it again with the Rose Quarter widening.

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    5 Nov 2019
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    Oooooooooh... the best carbon reducing tech that PDX could employ would be to stop building a $250M 2,500 stall parking garage!

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    5 Nov 2019
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    It would be very popular -- even with drivers.

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  19. 22 Oct 2019

    Your city can't be inclusive if it isn't unequal| City Observatory Measured income equality, which is sensible goal nationally, is a perversely misleading indicator of which cities are the most just and and inclusive

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    5 Oct 2019

    “Every year since 2010, cars with pedestrian avoidance systems have represented a higher proportion than ever of cars moving around on American roads. And almost every year since 2010, the pedestrian death count has gone up.”

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