Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Highway Removal

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.

New York State was just about to tear down Syracuse’s crumbling (and racist) I-81 — until a successful suit against the project prevailed. Photo: Onondaga Citizens League

Syracuse’s Messy I-81 Teardown Fight Shows the Challenge of ‘Reconnecting Communities’

By Kea Wilson | Dec 12, 2022 | No Comments

An 11th-hour legal battle over the future of one of America's most talked-about highway teardowns is sparking a debate about what it really means to "reconnect communities" devastated by highway construction — and possibly offering a preview of similar fights on deck in other U.S. cities.

The Claiborne Avenue Expressway. Photo: CNU, CC

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Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Highway Removal

Freeway Fighters List Their Top Five Needs For 2023

Syracuse’s Messy I-81 Teardown Fight Shows the Challenge of ‘Reconnecting Communities’

Advocates Warn ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Could Actually Expand Highways

Op-Ed: To Heal Historic Highway Harms, Sec. Buttigieg Needs Bold Thinking

Feds Using Freight Program Money to Tear Down a Detroit Highway

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