Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. PIRG

Yes, we should raise the gas tax, but we must also reform wasteful spending on highway boondoggles. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Priority One: Banish Highway Boondoggles

By John Stout | Jun 1, 2021 | No Comments

We can’t keep pumping new money into a broken system and expect a different result.

Why The U.S. Needs a Bold 2030 Mode Shift Target

By Kea Wilson | Mar 30, 2021 | No Comments

America needs to commit to transportation policies that will at least double the number of people who travel by foot, bike or transit by 2030, a leading advocacy group argues.

How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses

By Kea Wilson | Feb 10, 2021 | No Comments

It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.

The North Houston Highway Improvement Project will expand already vast swaths of highway
through the middle of Houston, displacing homes and businesses and dividing communities.
Image: Texas Dept. of Transportation

Boondoggle: A Texas-Sized Mess of a Highway Plan

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 19, 2019 | 11 Comments

Deadly and sprawling Houston does not need this $7-billion widening and rebuilding highway project.

Boondoggles: Nine Projects That Should Not Happen

By Gideon Weissman and Matthew Casale | Jun 18, 2019 | 10 Comments

Here's the thing with highway expansion projects: They're big. They're expensive. And they have limited benefit. Our friends at US PIRG present their annual report.

Ugh — urban infrastructure. Photo: Ohio River Bridges Flickr Page

There’s a Right Way to Spend Trillions on Infrastructure

By Aaron Short | May 14, 2019 | 3 Comments

A new report seeks to upend the debate over infrastructure to investments that boost mass transit while saving the planet.

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