Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Boondoggles

Chuck Schumer Pushing Highway Boondoggle

By Eve Kessler | Mar 15, 2021 | No Comments

Construction interests — and Sen. Schumer — want to add a lane to the Catskills artery. It's madness.

Texas Highway Boondoggle Dealt Blow by Feds

By Kea Wilson | Mar 12, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Allston Multimodal Project. Photo: Mass DOT

Highway Boondoggles 2020: Boston's Big Choice

By Matt Casale and Gideon Weissman | Jan 1, 2021 | No Comments

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.

A visualization of the proposed connector, via Youtube

Highway Boondoggles 2020: Southeast Connector, Texas

By Gideon Weissman and Matt Casale | Dec 30, 2020 | No Comments

This $1.6-billion project would also use valuable state resources even as basic transit needs in Fort Worth go unmet.

Florida’s M-CORES highway project would threaten the habitat and the survival of the endangered Florida Panther. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Highway Boondoggles 2020: M-CORES, Florida

By Gideon Weissman and Matt Casale | Dec 28, 2020 | No Comments

Despite $1 billion in budget cuts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida's 2020-21 budget still includes $90 million for this boondoggle, which could threaten the endangered Florida panther with extinction.

The I-526 Extension would connect to the James Island Expressway, above. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Highway Boondoggles 2020: I-526 Extension in S.C.

By Gideon Weissman and Matt Casale | Dec 24, 2020 | No Comments

The I-526 extension would have minimal impact on travel times, saving drivers mere seconds at the expense of the region's protected wetlands.

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