Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Freeways

A Teen Activist’s Message to Transportation Leaders That Everyone Needs To Hear

By Kea Wilson | May 3, 2023 | No Comments

Teenage climate organizers in Oregon are standing up against a freeway expansion that will threaten their generation's very future — and sending a message to adult policymakers that the connection between car dependency and the climate crisis can no longer be ignored.

Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Stops Work on $15 Billion Turnpike Expansion

By Asia Mieleszko | Apr 21, 2023 | No Comments

Oklahoma’s freeway fighters are resting a little easier this week, having learned that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) is halting all work related to the $15 billion turnpike expansion, ACCESS Oklahoma.

The city of Baltimore recently received federal grant money to study removing a stretch of I-40 known as the "Highway to Nowhere." Photo: FA Martin, CC

These 10 Urban Freeways Deserve To Be Demolished — But Will They?

By Kea Wilson | Apr 19, 2023 | No Comments

America is at a watershed moment in the fight to heal the harms of urban freeways that tore apart predominantly BIPOC and low-income communities, a new report argues — but what that healing will look like, exactly, is still an open question.

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Not a Surprise: 101 Freeway Widening Shows Negative Results

By Roger Rudick | Apr 12, 2023 | No Comments

Engineer on 101 project admits $600 million freeway widening accomplished nothing

Freeway Fighters List Their Top Five Needs For 2023

By Ben Crowther, Aaron Brown and Martha Roskowski | Mar 3, 2023 | No Comments

so? Transportation for America and America Walks recently surveyed organizations fighting freeways all across the country to get a better sense of what they need to win, and the results are both inspiring and daunting.

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Federal Reconnecting Communities Program Announces First Grants, Four In California

By Melanie Curry | Feb 28, 2023 | No Comments

This is the DOT's first move towards repairing damage done by building highways through communities is $185 million for 45 projects that remove, retrofit, or somehow mitigate barriers created by highways - and railroad tracks.

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