Highways
The Highway Shakedown, Part Two: What Locals Lose When Road Funding Isn’t Distributed Fairly
While lawmakers fight to defend America's "user-pay" road funding system, both federal and state policies have not provided locally owned roads with a fair share of their users’ tax contributions. It's time to change that.
Highway Shakedown: How Local Road Users Are Subsidizing State Highway Investments
States across America are breaking the "user-pay" promise. A new report argues it's time to change that.
State DOTs Aren’t Stacking Up On Sustainability and Equity
Vermont is the best state DOT — but advocates say it, and every other state, needs to do better.
Cross-Bronx Cap ‘Potentially Feasible’ — But Expensive: Report
Here's a plan for a highway that isn't a scar. Now all we need is the money.
How Highways Rend Our Social Fabric — and the Challenge of Mending It
Roads are supposed to connect us. So why do so many highways tear our social networks apart?
Reconnecting Communities: Are We There Yet?
Advocates warn: to reconnect communities, you have to listen to them.
Red State, Red Tape: How to Fight for a Highway Teardown in Louisiana
Inside the fight for environmental justice on a once-bustling Black New Orleans business corridor scarred by a dangerous highway overpass.
Is Amtrak’s Big Dig Harming West Baltimore’s Black Neighborhoods?
Amtrak's single biggest infrastructure project got hit with a civil rights complaint. How should sustainable transportation advocates get involved in the conversation?
Another Reason We Have a Housing Crisis? Highways!
In urban neighborhoods — especially Black ones — land once set aside for homes was decimated for car drivers.
Our Overbuilt Road Network Costs Americans Trillions in Lost Housing Opportunities
America has poured enough asphalt to build its sprawling auto-centric road network to cover the entire nation of the Netherlands.
