Highway Expansion
Basics
Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: How To Stop a Highway
Lessons from the frontline of the fight against a Texas highway expansion plan.
October 19, 2021
Not So FAST: Senate Transport Bill Causes Pileup for White House Climate Goals
A Senate proposal to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into new freeways will wipe out the Biden administration’s goal of halving carbon emissions by 2030.
May 27, 2021
ZOOM CALL: Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan
Transportation leaders believe President Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure bill will finally get states to stop splurging federal dollars on freeway projects and emissions-enabling concrete superstructures that carve up cities.
April 28, 2021
Calculator Shows How Many Cars Will Come To Your Town’s New Highway
A Colorado nonprofit has developed a calculator to help residents quantify how adding highway miles in their state will translate to more cars on the road, and they’re hoping advocates in other states will follow suit.
April 28, 2021
Oregon Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway Expansion
Advocates in Portland, Ore. have sued to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns across the U.S.
April 6, 2021
Racist Texas Highway Boondoggle Dealt Blow by Buttigieg’s FHWA
One of Texas's most-notorious highway expansion projects is being put on pause, thanks to a U.S. Department of Transportation that's newly committed to mitigating the racist impacts of federally funded transportation projects.
March 12, 2021
Can a Land Bridge Restore What a Black Community Lost?
Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.
February 19, 2021
Op-Ed: Highway Expansion Would Take Md. in the Wrong Direction
It is time for Maryland to shed obsolete highway-focused traffic solutions, and pursue alternative strategies that give residents more, and cleaner, choices for how to get around.
February 15, 2021
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Birmingham’s Northern Beltline
The $5.3-billion project is a 52-mile, six-lane expressway that's almost entirely reliant on intermittent and insufficient federal funding, and scheduled to take at least 40 years to complete.
December 23, 2020
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Illinois’s I-57 Interchange
Illinois officials have budgeted $206 million for a new interchange on I-57 that would take drivers onto a road through undeveloped farmland 44 miles south of Chicago in Will County, Illinois.
December 21, 2020
