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Matthew Casale

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Oregon is thinking of spending a billion on a boondoggle.

Highway Boondoggles, Part VII: Oregon’s Abernethy Insanity

By Matthew Casale, James Horrox and Bryn Huxley-Reicher | Sep 21, 2022 | No Comments
In our final installment of our annual Highway Boondoggles series with U.S. PIRG., we look at bridge widening that circumvented the National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Impact Assessment process.
Photo: Google Earth

Highway Boondoggles Part V: Duluth’s ‘Can of Worms’

By James Horrox, Bryn Huxley-Reicher and Matthew Casale | Sep 19, 2022 | No Comments
It’s sometimes said that Minnesota has two seasons: winter and road construction. In Duluth, an ongoing, multiyear highway project has sucked up millions of taxpayer dollars on a road that many residents believe shouldn’t even be there in the first place.
Photo: PennDOT

Highway Boondoggles, Part IV: Erie’s ‘Mistake by the Lake’

By James Horrox, Bryn Huxley-Reicher and Matthew Casale | Sep 16, 2022 | No Comments
A proposed highway will make traffic worse ... and cut off the waterfront.
Seneca Creek – one of the unspoiled natural areas threatened by the proposed M-83 highway.
Photo: G. Edward Johnson

Highway Boondoggles, Part I: Maryland’s Misguided Highway Extension

By James Horrox, Bryn Huxley-Reicher and Matthew Casale | Sep 13, 2022 | No Comments
Here's the first installment of this year's "Highway Boondoggles" series — we'll start in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Photo: Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash

How Fed Infrastructure Money Enables Highway Boondoggles

By James Horrox, Bryn Huxley-Reicher and Matthew Casale | Sep 12, 2022 | No Comments
Federal funding could be spent on fixing our aging roads, making our streets safer, and making it easier to travel on transit, by bike or on foot, giving Americans real options for getting around without a car. But it will more likely be spent on expanding highways.
Virginia will expand Interstate 81, changes that will cost a whopping $2.2 billion and affect Civil War landscapes.

Boondoggle: Virginia’s Unlovable I-81 Expansion

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jul 1, 2019 | 14 Comments
Officials have pointed to safety as a key reason for the need to expand the highway. Yet, in 2010, state officials raised speed limits to 70 mph along much of I-81, a move that likely made the road more dangerous.
Interstate 5, leading toward Portland. Oregon's plans to widen the highway through Portland's Rose Quarter will only lead to more congestion.
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Boondoggle: Portland Takes a Step Backward

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 28, 2019 | 11 Comments
Portland has made bold moves toward becoming a good place to get around without a car. But it's about to make a huge mistake in the Rose Quarter.
Pennsylvania seeks to widen I-83 in York County, but funds for the costly project would be better spent on operational improvements such as crash prevention. Image: PennDOT
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Boondoggle: Keystone State’s 1-83 Expansion

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 27, 2019 | 6 Comments
Pennsylvania is moving forward with a plan to spend $300 million in order to widen I-83 in York County to eight lanes from four. But project documents fail to show how the project will solve any problems or bring clear benefits to the region.
Rendering of a proposed park under the expanded I-395 highway project, showing parkgoers
strolling just feet from high-speed traffic. Image: Florida Department of Transportation
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Highway Boondoggles: More Mistakes in Miami

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 26, 2019 | 5 Comments
In Miami, highways slice through almost every section of the city, cutting neighborhoods off from one another and creating sprawl that threatens the surrounding environment.
No amount of pavement can alleviate the traffic in Chicago, because any amount of roadway just attracts more people in cars. Photo:  Ken Lund/Flickr
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Highway Boondoggles: Chicago’s Congestion Magnet

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 25, 2019 | 4 Comments
The Tri-State Tollway through the western Chicago suburbs to O’Hare Airport is a testament to the fact that you can’t build your way out of congestion.
The High Desert Freeway could overburden desert ecosystems, altering the landscape and straining scarce water resources. Image: California Dept. of Transportation
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Highway Boondoggle: Golden State’s Desert Destruction

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 24, 2019 | 8 Comments
California's $8-billion, 63-mile “High Desert Freeway" north of downtown Los Angeles would lead to more driving and more pollution, along with sprawling desert development.
The Michigan Department of Transportation has pointed to population growth in Oakland County as the reason the area needs a larger Interstate 75 north of Detroit. But  projected growth shows the county adding fewer than 100,000 people between 2015 and 2045, across an area nearly four times as large as Chicago. Photo:  Ken Lund

Highway Boondoggles: Madness in Michigan

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 21, 2019 | 5 Comments
The Great Lakes State is undertaking to expand the capacity of Interstate 75 — a project that is both unnecessary and will exacerbate the region’s problems.
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