Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Boondoggles

The Loop 1604/I-10 interchange would be five levels high. Credit: Texas Department of Transportation via Youtube

Highway Boondoggles 2020: Texas' Loop 1604

By Gideon Weissman and Matt Casale | | No Comments
In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that would divide our communities, deprive transit of scarce funds, and pollute our air and water. Below is the second of seven installments detailing these harmful projects. The Texas Department of Transportation […]
Cincinnati's Eastern Bypass boondoggle was proposed as a possible alternative to replacing the aging Brent Spence Bridge, above. Image: Landline via Creative Commons

2020 Boondoggles: Cincinnati Eastern Bypass

By Gideon Weissman and Matt Casale | | No Comments
In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that would divide our communities, deprive transit of scarce funds, and pollute our air and water. Below is the first of seven installments detailing these harmful projects. Ohio and Kentucky […]
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