Sprawl & Transportation
All of Sightline's research, maps, and publications on the Northwest's land use, transportation, and urban design.
In this section, you'll find Sightline's latest research, graphics, and solutions on how the Northwest is doing at creating healthier, climate-friendly communities where people can spend more time with their families--instead of stuck in traffic. Our most recent analysis looks at the long-term climate impact of adding new highway lanes.
- Research & Publications
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Report
Analysis: Highway-Widening Projects and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Adding lanes to a highway will increase total global warming emissions over the long term -- even if it reduces congestion over the short term. -
Fact sheet
Sprawl Statistics for Seven Northwest Cities
How Cascadia's seven largest cities--Vancouver, Victoria, Spokane, Seattle, Eugene, Portland, and Boise--stack up in livability.
- Solutions
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Make Best Transportation Buys First
Bus, rail, or monorail? Here's a system for figuring out which transportation solutions are the best match to a community's needs. -
Ease Congestion by Pricing It
The best-kept secret among transportation experts is the near-universal agreement that variable tolls--known as congestion pricing--offer the only real solution to worsening gridlock.
- Resources
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Organization
Transportation Choices Coalition
Transportation Choices Coalition seeks to bring Washingtonians more and better transportation choices--real opportunities to take a bus, take a train, ride a bike, or walk--as well as drive alone. http://www.transportationchoices.org -
Organization
Smart Growth BC
Smart Growth BC is a provincial non-governmental advocacy organization devoted to fiscally, socially and environmentally responsible land use and development. http://www.smartgrowth.bc.ca
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