Memorial Day Op-Ed Special: To Halt Wasteful Highways, America Needs a ‘Road Review’
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America has a highway-happy, boondoggle-building transportation policy system. It doesn't need to.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Expansion
A Teen Activist’s Message to Transportation Leaders That Everyone Needs To Hear
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Teenage climate organizers are standing up to adult policymakers.
These 10 Urban Freeways Deserve To Be Demolished — But Will They?
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America is at a watershed moment in the fight to heal the harms of urban freeways that tore apart predominantly BIPOC and low-income communities, a new report argues — but what that healing will look like, exactly, is still an open question.
Analysis: City Ignored BQE Panel Recs To Ease Local Traffic From Two-Lane Conversion
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The city has failed to adopt key recommendations by its own appointed experts to curb congestion near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway after officials reduced the highway from six to four lanes — and the Adams administration may be now using that same congestion as a justification for building a wider highway.
Rest In Pieces, ‘Fix-it-First’: Biden Caves to GOP on Highway Expansions
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The Biden administration has caved to GOP pressure and will no longer push states to repair existing highways before building new ones, a move that angered livable cities advocates.
Congress’s Messy ‘Fix-It-First’ Fight Heats Up
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A long-fought effort to get states to spend more of their federal infrastructure dollars on fixing highways rather than building new ones is in peril in the newly GOP-lead head house — and if it succeeds, it could force President Biden to take an unprecedented stand in favor of progressive road priorities.