Residents of Allendale, LA, learned that controversial Interstate 49 inner-city connector will not be cutting through their neighborhood. Unfortunately, however, the victory has been bittersweet.
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The Texas Department of Transportation pushes forward with an $85 billion, decade-long plan to expand the state’s highway system, despite widespread opposition and even a federal lawsuit.
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MoDOT recently put out a tweet celebrating the 50-year anniversary of a highway that tore up Kansas City’s downtown. Here are just some of the (rightfully) angry reactions they got.
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What was once a fringe idea to convince the state of Washington to turn a section of Highway 99 over to local control has grown into a publicly funded action.
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From one freeway fighter to any aspiring freeway fighters out there: Here’s 10 things to keep in mind as you advocate for highway removal in your community.
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For years now, TxDOT has considered removing Interstate 345 in downtown Dallas…only to conclude their study by coming up with a much worse plan.
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The halting of three in-city freeway expansions highlights a new momentum on reversing the damage of highways through urban areas.
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When a highway expansion threatened to destroy a historic Black neighborhood in New Orleans, this advocate spoke out against it. Here’s how she made herself heard.
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Our excessive expansion of the interstate highway system has destroyed urban downtowns—and it’s wiped out many small towns altogether.
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TxDOT’s latest boondoggle: a highway expansion that threatens to cut right at the heart of downtown El Paso.
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From its one-time status as one of America’s most prosperous cities, Hartford, CT, is now one of the poorest—no thanks to its mid-twentieth-century urban renewal projects.
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Fact: New roads always produce new driving. Say hello to “induced demand.”
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ODOT has resorted to some truly cheap and deceptive marketing tactics to promote their new freeway-widening project.
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Here’s a roundup of five highway boondoggles that are threatening neighborhoods right now in the U.S. Think of it as a hall of shame.
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What could it look like to have a USDOT committed to reversing course from the mistakes of the freeway era?
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The new infrastructure bill will have big goals. But big new road projects won’t actually help us meet those goals.
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For example: Is it right to use Robert Moses means to undo the very harms created by Robert Moses?
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Large swaths of cities were bulldozed to build urban freeways. But there’s another reason freeway-building devastated city neighborhoods — and it’s a force still at work today.
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L.A.’s freeways—like urban freeways in many cities—have a shameful past. They’re making the city financially weaker in the present too. So what should their future be?
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The choice to carve up Kansas City with freeways ranks among the worst planning mistakes in the region's history. Many decades later, the city is still is suffering the consequences.
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