"It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses."
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A survey issued by the Missouri Dept. of Transportation shows just how messed up our transportation funding system is and why the binary choices we're presented with aren't the whole picture.
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Inspired by organizations like Strong Towns, a new group has formed to push back against highway construction in Portland.
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Portland is thinking about widening freeways; other cities show that doesn’t work.
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Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives.
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The models used by highway engineers to analyze traffic congestion are woefully inaccurate and result in the creation of lanes and roads we don't need.
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High occupancy vehicle lanes are being sold as a positive addition to our highways, but they are just another way to induce demand for roads and driving.
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Changes to land use and street design can change the trajectory of entire neighborhoods—for good or for bad.
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In this presentation from our 2017 Summit in Tulsa, OK, Ashwat Anandanarayanan discusses his organization's work to fight expensive and wasteful highway projects using legal action and community organizing.
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The mental model that says traffic levels are some inexorable natural force like the tides, which must be accommodated or else, is just wrong.
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America’s transportation needs are changing. America’s transportation spending priorities aren’t.
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While she had no professional background in planning, engineering, or even community organizing, Dana Dunbar used her passion for her neighborhood and resources on websites like ours to rally her neighbors against a harmful road widening project.
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The 2017 Strong Towns Summit kicks off tonight! Get to know our Summit speakers through these five unique stories.
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Everybody these days seems to have a prescription for what ails the Rust Belt. Is highway spending the golden ticket to success?
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We prepare for the Strong Towns Summit on Transportation this Friday and Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Most cities' "traffic problems" are actually problems with the qualitative experience of traffic, not with simple travel time or delay. Perhaps we need a "Traffic Frustration Index" instead of a Traffic Congestion Index.
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If “big data” and “smart cities” are really going to amount to anything substantial, it has to be more than just generating high tech scare stories.
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Highway project proponents convert very small amounts of time savings into cash equivalents to show all the benefit a project is creating. In the case of the I49 connector, it barely even passes this phony test.
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Building a highway through the heart of Shreveport, LA will destroy a strong neighborhood at a high cost. We're going to explore that story this week and show what's wrong with the plan.
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Under our current system, non-drivers subsidize drivers. Only a fundamentally different model of road and highway funding can break us out of this prisoner’s dilemma.
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