Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Highway Expansion

Another section of I-5. Image: Curtis Gregory Perry via Creative Commons.

Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway

By Kea Wilson | Apr 6, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates in Portland, Ore. have sued to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns across the U.S.

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.

Young Marvin Anderson watches the destruction of his neighborhood to make way for I-94. More than half a century later, he's leading an effort to rebuild some of what the historically Black Rondo region lost. Courtesy: Reconnect Rondo

Can a Land Bridge Restore What a Black Community Lost?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 19, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.

This Maryland highway is wide enough already — and expanding it even more would only exacerbate the region's problems. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Opinion: Hogan Wrong on Highway Expansion

By Eyal Li | Feb 15, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Construction on the Birmingham Northern Beltline was forced to pause after initial funding ran out. Credit: Alabama Department of Transportation

Boondoggles: Birmingham's Northern Beltline

By Gideon Weissman and Matt Casale | Dec 23, 2020 | No Comments

The $5.3-billion project is a 52-mile, six-lane expressway that's almost entirely reliant on intermittent and insufficient federal funding, and scheduled to take at least 40 years to complete.

The proposed interchange would be built in farmland near Peotone in Will County, Illinois. Credit: Ken Lund via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Highway Boondoggles 2020: The I-57 Interchange

By Gideon Weissman and Matt Casale | Dec 21, 2020 | No Comments

Illinois officials have budgeted $206 million for a new interchange on I-57 that would take drivers onto a road through undeveloped farmland 44 miles south of Chicago in Will County, Illinois.

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