#NoNewRoads is our campaign to stop unnecessary and unaffordable spending on highways and roads.
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.
Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives.
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.
Maine's response to a serious road maintenance funding emergency is to cling to AASHTO’s archaic code book while projecting a value system of improve, Improve, IMPROVE, even going so far as to assume massive traffic increases where there is little traffic today.
Proposed changes to federal rules on congestion mitigation reaffirm that real responses to the complex problems we face will only come from our cities, towns and neighborhoods.
Concluding remarks and steps forward after a week of #NoNewRoads.
Strong Towns shares an exclusive interview with @StuckBertha, the tunnel boring machine that is stuck beneath Seattle.
Washington state, known for having one of the “greenest” administrations, just passed the largest transportation spending bill in the state’s history. Here are 5 ways that WSDOT and other DOTs are keeping us stuck squarely in the 1960s.
The Suburban Experiment creates an illusion of wealth early on, which makes it very seductive. As a city like Baxter, MN enters the second life cycle and all of the dispersed systems that came with the growth now need costly maintenance, the seductive illusion is slowly destroyed.
Why No New Roads?
Strong Towns advocates for financial solvency and productive land use in American cities. The national obsession with an ever-expanding road system based on inaccurate projections has led many communities into serious debt, all for the sake of a road system with little financial return. We have built more auto infrastructure than we are willing to pay to maintain, and yet we insist on building more.
At Strong Towns, we believe that a transportation system should be a means of creating prosperity in a community, not an end unto itself. Before America spends more on transportation, we must modernize our transportation finance system to get better returns on our investments.
Do you want to see an end to expensive and dangerous road projects? Join Strong Towns, the movement that's working to make that happen.
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Congestion isn’t a problem and road expansion isn’t a solution.
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.
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.
Despite growing repair needs and the ever-more-apparent futility of addressing congestion through road expansion, the U.S. still spends vast sums of money to build new highways and widen existing ones.
Devolution isn't so scary when the alternative is this crazy.
What would our transportation system look like if all users—cyclists, car drivers, pedestrians—paid their fair share?
In spite of a major budget shortfall, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker offers no plan to raise revenue or adjust his transportation funding goals.
Several states are choosing to un-pave their roads and replace them with gravel rather than spend money they don't have to fix them.
1,000 Friends of Wisconsin is doing impressive work to stop wasteful road spending in Wisconsin. We're pleased to share this recent victory from our friends at this organization.

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Strong Towns President Charles Marohn speaking on transportation policy at Boston University, June 2015.
Chuck Marohn's book on transportation policy, A World Class Transportation System, is available for Kindle.
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Congestion isn’t a problem and road expansion isn’t a solution.