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Friday’s Headlines Are Going Underground
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The growing "cap and cover" movement seeks to reunite neighborhoods and improve air quality by burying urban freeways.
Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance
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Why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity.
An Interstate Across America — For Everyone Besides Drivers, That Is — Would Pay For Itself in No Time
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A continuous cross-continental active transportation trail would pay for itself in less than five years in visitor spending alone, a new analysis argues — and it could have a big impact on the car-free transportation landscape in the communities it runs through, too.
Thursday’s Headlines Need An Assist
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Small cities need help applying for infrastructure grants. Also, want to help Ukraine beat Putin? Put up more barriers for e-bike users.
Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects
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"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."
Wednesday’s Headlines Want Safe Streets Now
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Particularly frightening about the 16-year high in traffic deaths: The spike in pedestrians killed, seniors killed and deaths caused by large truck drivers.