File photo🎧 Portland’s 50-Year War on Cars: How Did It Get Here? Naomi Inman provides an introduction to the series: Portland’s War on CarsNaomi InmanCascade Policy InstituteIntroduction to the series: Portland’s War on CarsBy Naomi InmanThis July, Cascade published a new report by adjunct scholar Randal O’Toole, “The Portland Transportation Disaster: The High Cost of Anti Auto Planning in Portland.” Portland’s transit planning has been guided by the same delusion for half a century: that the personal vehicle can be regulated, nudged, or inconvenienced out of existence. Naomi Inman is external relations manager at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization. As a staff journalist and writer, Naomi helps Cascade make the case for free-market policies through media affairs and publications.