Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Expansion

Not Just a Phase: Young Americans Won’t Start Motoring Like Their Parents

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 14, 2014 | No Comments

A raft of recent research indicates that young adults just aren’t as into driving as their parents were. Young people today are walking, biking, and riding transit more while driving less than previous generations did at the same age. But the vast majority of state DOTs have been loathe to respond by changing their highway-centric ways. A […]

To Destabilize Detroit’s Fragile Renaissance, Go Ahead and Widen I-94

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 30, 2014 | No Comments

A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good. Michigan highway planners want to spend […]

Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct: King of the Highway Boondoggles

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 26, 2014 | No Comments

Southern California Road Agency Courts Bankruptcy With Highway Addition

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 18, 2014 | No Comments

Today, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group released a new report, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future.” In it, they examine 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. This week we’ve previewed the report with posts about the proposed Effingham Parkway in Savannah, Georgia and the harebrained scheme to […]

Will Missouri Voters Go Along With the Highway Lobby’s Money Grab?

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 30, 2014 | No Comments

Next week, Missouri voters will decide on Amendment 7 — a three-quarter-cent sales tax hike to pay for transportation projects that would be the largest tax increase in the state’s history. Construction industry groups have poured millions into convincing Missourians to pay $5.4 billion over the next 10 years. Will they bite? A coalition of pro-transit forces […]

Building Cloverleafs Won’t Inspire Americans to Pay More for Transportation

By Ben Ross | Jul 23, 2014 | No Comments

Originally posted at Dissent. The federal transportation fund is running out of money, threatening the country with potholes, stopped construction, and economic downturn. Congress, which has kept the program solvent with short-term patches for years, now finds itself unable to do more than buy a few months’ time. Mainstream opinion pins the blame for this state […]

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