Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. PIRG

The Great Traffic Projection Swindle

By Angie Schmitt and Payton Chung | Nov 20, 2014 | 22 Comments

This is the final piece in a three-part series about privately-financed roads. In the first two parts of this series, we looked at the Indiana Toll Road as an example of the growth in privately financed highways, and how financial firms can turn these assets into profits, even if the road itself is a big money loser. […]

Not Just a Phase: Young Americans Won’t Start Motoring Like Their Parents

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 14, 2014 | 53 Comments

A raft of recent research indicates that young adults just aren’t as into driving as their parents were. Young people today are walking, biking, and riding transit more while driving less than previous generations did at the same age. But the vast majority of state DOTs have been loathe to respond by changing their highway-centric ways. A […]

The Illiana Expressway Will Eat Itself

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Oct 1, 2014 | 21 Comments

A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. This is the final installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good. Illinois and Indiana are proposing […]

To Destabilize Detroit’s Fragile Renaissance, Go Ahead and Widen I-94

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 30, 2014 | 9 Comments

A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good. Michigan highway planners want to spend […]

How Colorado DOT’s Dubious Traffic Projections Could Soak the Public

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 29, 2014 | 2 Comments

A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good. Local and state officials are eagerly […]

Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct: King of the Highway Boondoggles

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 26, 2014 | 11 Comments

A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good. Seattle’s aging Alaskan Way Viaduct is […]

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