Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Highway Removal

Advocates hoped that the "Reconnecting Communities" program would fund large-scale highway removals, but it may fund more projects like this Las Vegas pedestrian bridge. Photo: David Shane, CC

Four Things Advocates Need to Know About the ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program

By Kea Wilson | Jun 30, 2022 | No Comments

A disappointingly small federal fund to repair the devastation inflicted by highway builders on predominantly Black, brown, and poor communities is now accepting applications. But more needs to be done.

Houses next to the Claiborne Expressway in Treme, New Orleans. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects

By Amy Stelly | May 18, 2022 | No Comments

"Treme and the 7th Ward, like many neighborhoods across the country, are saddled with an aging, unsafe, polluting piece of highway infrastructure. We have to do something about it."

A protest against the Lower Manhattan Expressway, 1968.

Freeway Fighters Across the U.S. Are Joining Forces — And They Want You

By Kea Wilson | Apr 27, 2022 | No Comments

America's midcentury freeway revolts never really stopped — and now, the advocates behind them are joining forces to create what may be the largest organized national effort to prioritize communities over highways yet.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has been driving many of the cuts in the Build Back Better Act. Image: Third Way

What's In (And What's Out Of) the New Biden Bill

By Kea Wilson | Nov 2, 2021 | No Comments

Most programs favored by sustainable transportation advocates have survived negotiations over the massive social infrastructure package that's held up the country's transportation ambitions for months — though a few of them have gotten a little skinnier.

National Landing in Northern Virginia, where the local business improvement district wants to convert an elevated highway that divides National Landing’s downtown into a walkable boulevard with narrower lanes and slower car speeds. Image: Sblover99/Wikipedia, CC

Op-Ed: Will States and Feds Let Cities Tame Urban Highways?

By Scott Beyer | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

Urban highways are a fixture of city life in the U.S. — but much of the time cities don’t control them. Could that change?

San Francisco's Great Highway after it was given the "freeways to boulevard" treatment in April, 2020. But that was a COVID-era plan that may not be permanent.

These 15 Urban Highways Have Got to Go

By Kea Wilson | Jun 2, 2021 | No Comments

A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of BIPOC residents were forcibly displaced — including the site of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.

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