Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Expansion

Bragdon: PlaNYC 2.0 Cheaper, Bottom-Up, But May Include Hudson Tunnel

By Noah Kazis | Feb 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

City sustainability chief David Bragdon offered some more hints about what to expect from April’s update of PlaNYC this morning. Speaking at a livability conference hosted by NYU’s Rudin Center, Bragdon said that the update would eschew large capital projects and feature a larger role for neighborhoods and individuals. In terms of transportation, Bragdon seemed […]

Twin Cities Rein in Highway Expansions, Tame Runaway Transpo Spending

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 12, 2011 | No Comments

The Twin Cities region is reassessing the role of highways in its transportation system. Like many communities throughout the country, Minneapolis-St. Paul is moving beyond the decades-old assumption that the only way to eliminate congestion is with more outward-stretching asphalt. This fall, officials in the Twin Cities voted to roll back highway expansions and increase […]

Actually, Highway Builders, Roads Don’t Pay For Themselves

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 4, 2011 | No Comments

You’ve heard it a thousand times from the highway lobby: Roads pay for themselves through “user fees” — a.k.a. gas taxes and tolls — whereas transit is a drain on the taxpayer. They use this argument to push for new roads, instead of transit, as fiscally prudent investments. The myth of the self-financed road meets […]

New Freeway Revolt Grips Guadalajara

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 6, 2010 | No Comments

While the world has gathered in Cancun, Mexico, to discuss again a shared approach to Climate Chaos, action is already being taken in countless communities. On a visit last week to Guadalajara, Mexico, more than a thousand miles west of the Climate Meeting, I had the pleasure of discovering a vibrant grassroots movement to block […]

Fred Barnes: Americans Mainly Want to Stay in Their Cars

By Ben Fried | Nov 3, 2010 | 35 Comments

After yesterday’s electoral drubbing, the Obama administration will have to deal with a starkly different Congress when they make their expected push for a multi-year transportation bill early next year. We know that some influential House Republicans, like John Mica, don’t necessarily believe that bigger highways will solve America’s transportation problems. And we know that […]

Texas Gov Rick Perry Could Get Four More Years to Build Mega-Highways

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 27, 2010 | No Comments

This is the fourth installment of Streetsblog Capitol Hill’s series on key governor’s races. Earlier we brought you stories about a candidate who likes bikes but isn’t sure about transit in Tennessee, the choice between light rail and bus rapid transit in Maryland, and how bike paranoia is cutting the GOP off at the knees […]

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