A front-page story in Sunday’s Oregonian by Michael Milstein details how local and state governments have undertaken numerous small measures that collectively help offset greenhouse gas levels and, in turn, help fight global warming. Between traffic signal improvements, tree planting and building efficiency measures, Milstein reports, the next few decades years will see these efforts alone reduce carbon dioxide by millions of tons. Of course, that’s a good thing.
But one aspect of the report, even amidst the good news of carbon reductions, got me frustrated. According to a sidebar report, Portland transportation managers have recently cut greenhouses gases by adjusting traffic signals. The idea is to allow traffic to flow more efficiently with fewer red-light stops. At intersections like 39th and Division, Martin Luther King between Killingsworth and Broadway, and a stretch of Powell Boulevard, they’ve tracked traffic around the clock and created new timing plans with the help of […]
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