Matt Casale
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Highway Boondoggles Part VI: Martinsville’s Big Miss
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The Martinsville Southern Connector is a classic waste of money that will hurt an historic community.
Highway Boondoggles, Part III: Two Big Garden State Mistakes
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In today's episode of our long-running series with U.S. PIRG, we focus on a Garden State flimflam.
Highway Boondoggles, Part II: Induced Demand Across the Ohio River
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The Brent Spence Bridge is a vital link between Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati. The plan to replace it is though, is a boondoggle. Here's why.
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Boston's Big Choice
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Unlike some other projects in this report, there is no escaping the need for major investment in transportation infrastructure in this section of Boston. The question is how.
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Southeast Connector, Texas
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This $1.6-billion project would also use valuable state resources even as basic transit needs in Fort Worth go unmet.
Highway Boondoggles 2020: M-CORES, Florida
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Despite $1 billion in budget cuts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida's 2020-21 budget still includes $90 million for this boondoggle, which could threaten the endangered Florida panther with extinction.
Highway Boondoggles 2020: I-526 Extension in S.C.
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The I-526 extension would have minimal impact on travel times, saving drivers mere seconds at the expense of the region's protected wetlands.
Boondoggles: Birmingham's Northern Beltline
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The $5.3-billion project is a 52-mile, six-lane expressway that's almost entirely reliant on intermittent and insufficient federal funding, and scheduled to take at least 40 years to complete.
Highway Boondoggles 2020: The I-57 Interchange
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Illinois officials have budgeted $206 million for a new interchange on I-57 that would take drivers onto a road through undeveloped farmland 44 miles south of Chicago in Will County, Illinois.
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Texas' Loop 1604
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In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that would divide our communities, deprive transit of scarce funds, and pollute our air and water. Below is the second of seven installments detailing these harmful projects. The Texas Department of Transportation […]
2020 Boondoggles: Cincinnati Eastern Bypass
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In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that would divide our communities, deprive transit of scarce funds, and pollute our air and water. Below is the first of seven installments detailing these harmful projects. Ohio and Kentucky […]
Can COVID-19 Finally Kill the Highway Boondoggle?
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America was already faced with the need to make critical transportation investments. And then COVID-19 hit, upending travel patterns and undercutting the traditional sources of government transportation revenue.