Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

New NYS DOT Commish on Smart Growth: “We Need to Go Further”

By Noah Kazis | Mar 10, 2011 | 2 Comments

Coming two days after her confirmation as the new commissioner of the state DOT, Joan McDonald’s keynote speech at today’s annual meeting of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council offered her the chance to lay out her agenda for statewide transportation policy. McDonald’s remarks should provide cause for optimism among New Yorkers hoping for a […]

Tonight: Learn All About Tearing Down the Sheridan

By Noah Kazis | Feb 15, 2011 | 6 Comments

With a new administration at the state DOT, now is a critical moment for the fight to tear down the under-used Sheridan Expressway and turn the area into new housing, jobs, and public space. Tonight, bring your questions and ideas to a town hall hosted by the South Bronx River Watershed Alliance. SBRWA will make […]

Charleston Highway Plan, Back From the Dead, May Finally Meet Its Maker

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 3, 2011 | No Comments

In the 1970s, engineers drew a horseshoe around Charleston, South Carolina — the planned route for Interstate 526, also known as the Mark Clark Expressway. The highway was to extend from Mt. Pleasant in the north to James Island in the south. It was to be a traditional highway bypass, the kind that were being […]

The Evolution of PlaNYC: Transit, Tight Budgets, and the Sheridan

By Noah Kazis | Dec 15, 2010 | 3 Comments

Last week Streetsblog sat down with David Bragdon, the new head of the city’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, to talk about next year’s update of PlaNYC. A new version of the city’s sustainability plan is set to be released on Earth Day, 2011 (that’s April 22), revising the 2007 roadmap for a city […]

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 […]

How to Slay a Highway: Notes on the Mt. Hood Freeway and Harbor Drive

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 19, 2010 | No Comments

I promised in my last post to tell you the triumphant stories of citizens beating back highways, both planned and already built. Here are more stories from the Rail~volution bike tour around Portland’s “lost highways.” Exhibit A: The Mount Hood Freeway “There was a period of ignorance, a period of enlightenment and catharsis, and a […]

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