Highway Expansion
Basics
Highway Boondoggles: Chicago’s Congestion Magnet
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.
June 25, 2019
Highway Boondoggle: Golden State’s Desert Destruction
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.
June 24, 2019
Highway Boondoggles: Madness in Michigan
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.
June 21, 2019
Boondoggle: A Texas-Sized Mess of a Highway Plan
Deadly and sprawling Houston does not need this $7-billion widening and rebuilding highway project.
June 19, 2019
Highway Boondoggles: Tar Heel State’s Road Expansion Disaster
It's the first of nine installments! This edition focuses on North Carolina’s plan to complete the southern half of a loop highway around Raleigh. It's a boondoggle with epic environmental repercussions.
June 19, 2019
Highway Boondoggles 2019: Nine Projects That Should Never Happen
Here's the thing with highway expansion projects: They're big. They're expensive. And they have limited benefit. Our friends at US PIRG present their annual report.
June 18, 2019
Award-Winning Bay Area Bridge Will Soon be a Failure
A plan to widen the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge somehow won an award for easing congestion even though it is certain to increase traffic.
June 11, 2019
What Happened When Larry Hogan Tried to Claim Wider Highways Would Help the Climate
A researcher speaks out against the Maryland governor's misuse of his data.
June 6, 2019
The Real Reason Roads Are In Bad Shape
States don't lack money for road maintenance. They just spend it on expensive new projects — ribbon cuttings! — instead.
May 15, 2019
A Great Big Freeway — Thanks to Induced Demand
Los Angeles is getting what it paid for when it widened 10 miles of its most infamous freeways — another lane of traffic.
May 8, 2019
