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Highway Boondoggles 2023: Pandering in the Panhandle

How bad is this boondoggle? Supporters are trying to sell it as if it includes a fancy deck plaza — which it does not.

November 20, 2023

Austin Becomes The Largest U.S. City to Eliminate Parking Minimums

The Violet Crown City voted to make the change months ago — but now that a revision of the city's byzantine zoning code is finally done, the law will actually go into effect.

November 3, 2023

The Nation’s Biggest Anti-Highway Rally In History Is Happening in Texas This Weekend

This Sunday, rally to stop one of the worst highway boondoggles of all!

November 3, 2023

The I-35 Expansion in Austin, Texas Shows Why States Should Never Control Their Own Environmental Review Process

A little-known loophole in federal law allows states like Texas to rubber-stamp their own environmental reviews — even when the projects they're reviewing are harmful highway boondoggles.

October 30, 2023

What Will It Take to Build a Bullet Train in Texas?

A long-fought high speed rail project may be coming back from the dead — and what happens next could be instructive for other communities hoping to someday run trains in highway-dominated states. 

August 29, 2023

How One City Used Transit to Cut Traffic During a Taylor Swift Mega-Concert

Building highway lanes will never, ever, ever get America's traffic problems under control — but a new study suggests that investing in other modes will, even when a massive pop star is in town.

August 16, 2023