Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

These 10 Urban Freeways Deserve To Be Demolished — But Will They?

By Kea Wilson | Apr 19, 2023 | No Comments

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.

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway cuts through neighborhoods including Sunset Park, shown above. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Brooklyn Pols Demand the State ‘Come to the Table’ on the BQE

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 10, 2023 | No Comments

More than a dozen Brooklyn lawmakers said they don't want DOT's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway plan: It's the highway or the highway.

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Syracuse’s Messy I-81 Teardown Fight Shows the Challenge of ‘Reconnecting Communities’

By Kea Wilson | Dec 12, 2022 | No Comments

An 11th-hour legal battle over the future of one of America's most talked-about highway teardowns is sparking a debate about what it really means to "reconnect communities" devastated by highway construction — and possibly offering a preview of similar fights on deck in other U.S. cities.

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Advocates Warn ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Could Actually Expand Highways

By Kea Wilson | Nov 3, 2022 | No Comments

A massive coalition of advocates is calling on the federal Department of Transportation to make sure a historic fund that could tear down harmful urban highways across America isn't used to expand or maintain them instead.

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What’s in the New ‘Climate’ Deal for Sustainable Transport — And What’s Not

By Kea Wilson | Jul 29, 2022 | No Comments

The Senate is on the brink of passing one of the most robust climate spending bills in U.S. history — but sustainable transportation advocates say it won't do enough to decarbonize the transportation sector.

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HOLIDAY READ: What Advocates Need to Know About the ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program

By Kea Wilson | Jul 4, 2022 | No Comments

A disappointingly small federal fund to repair the devastation inflicted by highway builders on predominantly Black, brown, and poor communities is now accepting applications. But more needs to be done.

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