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Denver Residents Sue to Stop John Hickenlooper’s Highway Boondoggle
North Denver neighborhood organizations and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in federal court today to stop Colorado DOT's I-70 boondoggle, which will increase traffic and create more air pollution for generations to come if it's built.
March 16, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: Pennsylvania’s Mon-Fayette Expressway Plan
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we highlight Pennsylvania's $1.7 billion Mon-Fayette Expressway plan, a highway plan that has outlived its reason for being.
February 4, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: Ohio DOT’s $1.2 Billion Portsmouth Bypass
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we highlight Ohio DOT's $1.2 billion Portsmouth Bypass, the most expensive and, arguably, least-needed transportation project in the state's history.
February 3, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: Iowa’s U.S. 20 Widening
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we highlight the proposed 40-mile widening of U.S. 20 in Iowa, which will cost many times as much as fixing all the state's structurally deficient highway bridges.
February 2, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: Texas State Highway 249 Extension
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we highlight the proposed 30-mile extension of State Highway 249 in Texas, which the state DOT wants to gouge through communities that already suffer from too much air pollution.
February 1, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: New Mexico’s Paseo del Volcan Extension
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. The proposed Paseo del Volcan Extension, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a textbook example of a project intended to induce and subsidize suburban sprawl.
January 29, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: Washington’s Puget Sound Gateway Project
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we look at a classic -- Washington's $3 billion "Puget Sound Gateway Project."
January 27, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: North Carolina’s I-77 Express Lanes
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we look at an expansion of I-77 in North Carolina that circumvented the normal project selection process thanks to a dubious financing plan.
January 26, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: Widening I-70 in Denver
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the original came out in 2014), U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group teamed up to profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Streetsblog will be serializing the case studies in the report. Today, we look at the widening of I-70 in Denver, a project with a potentially high social and economic cost.
January 25, 2016
Highway Boondoggles: California’s 710 Tunnel
A proposal to drill a pair of highway tunnels is the most expensive, most polluting, least effective option for solving the San Gabriel Valley’s transportation problems.
January 22, 2016