Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Expansion

What Do Anti-Density NIMBYs and Road-Wideners Have in Common?

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 19, 2012 | No Comments

Matt Yglesias made an excellent point about anti-density NIMBYs over at Slate yesterday. Writing about opposition to multifamily residential construction in the tony neighborhood near Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, Yglesias wondered how much value residents really place on keeping the area a “single-family residential community.” Just because there’s value in something doesn’t mean people are willing […]

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Here They Are: The Best and Worst American Transportation Projects

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 12, 2012 | No Comments

Which transportation projects are the smartest investments, and which are the most ridiculous boondoggles? The Sierra Club has put together a solid list in a new report titled “Smart Choices, Less Traffic: The 50 Best and Worst Transportation Projects in the United States.” The Sierra Club evaluated each project based on five criteria, including its […]

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Will Transportation Investments Keep Up With the Way Americans Travel?

By Phineas Baxandall | Oct 22, 2012 | No Comments

Phineas Baxandall is a senior analyst at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. It’s now common knowledge that annual changes in the volume of driving no longer follow the old patterns. For 60 years, the amount of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) rose steadily. Predicting more driving miles next year was like predicting that the sun would […]

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WisDOT Faces Civil Rights Suit Over $1.7 Billion “Zoo Interchange”

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 17, 2012 | No Comments

In the politically polarized Milwaukee region, there are two widely divergent visions of what transportation should do. There’s the Waukesha vision, which might be summarized as all highways, no transit. This suburban Republican stronghold — one of the most conservative counties in the country — has for years been systematically severing the already limited transit connections […]

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There’s a Lot Riding on U.S. DOT’s Definition of “Congestion”

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 15, 2012 | No Comments

Congress has done its job, such as it is, and passed a transportation bill. Now it’s handed off the policymaking to U.S. DOT, which must issue a raft of rules, definitions, and guidance to accompany the new law, known as MAP-21. According to sources with intimate knowledge of this process, much depends on how DOT […]

Cuomo Admin Applies Double Standard to Cars and Buses on Tappan Zee

By Noah Kazis | Jul 25, 2012 | 4 Comments

When it comes to building a new Tappan Zee Bridge for drivers, the Cuomo administration says there’s no time to waste and only a gold-plated, super-wide span will do. But don’t ask them how they plan to pay for it, or how high tolls will be. When it comes to building a new Tappan Zee […]

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