Infrastructure
Basics
Why We Need To Stop Calling Auto-Centric Roads ‘Assets’
Your city can't sell a road to the next town over when it needs a little cash. So why do our municipal accounting standards count highways as "assets"? Advocates say it's time to fix that. Image: Jay Galvin via Creative Commons
February 18, 2021
Better Streets calls on the city to develop a plan for municipal sidewalk snow removal
February 15, 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
Smart Growth America Equity Summit envisions a community-lead approach to planning
February 2, 2021
Metra hints that it may eventually move to a less 9-to-5-focused train schedule
February 1, 2021
Could a network of Slow Streets circuits speed pandemic recovery?
January 27, 2021
Should the CTA adopt women-only transit? Interviews with Chicago women suggest yes
January 15, 2021
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.
January 11, 2021
Georgia Senate Wins Put Major Transportation Reform Within Reach
Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
January 6, 2021
Boston Has a Choice Between Two Transportation Futures
Unlike some other projects in this report, there is no escaping the need for major investment in transportation infrastructure in this section of Boston. The question is how.
January 1, 2021
