Widening freeways is no way to promote equity.
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When engineers say a street must accommodate a high volume of traffic, what they really mean is, "The design of this street must prioritize the convenience of commuters over all else."
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Kentucky and Indiana wasted a billion dollars on highway capacity that people don’t use or value.
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Next month, the Portland Metro government is being asked to approve $36 million in additional funds for further planning of a massive freeway project. It should say no.
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Fact: New roads always produce new driving. Say hello to “induced demand.”
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Oregon’s Department of Transportation is making phony claims that widening highways reduces pollution. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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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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One family’s history tells volumes about the development of Kansas City since the 1950s.
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A question we often hear concerns highway bypasses around small towns. Are they good? Bad? Let's find out by looking at a case study: Starke, Florida, and U.S. 301.
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The federal government has proposed $20 billion to be allocated toward targeted freeway removal, but will that be enough to fix America’s cities?
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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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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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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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The State of Texas is prepared to fully fund a massive freeway widening project through the heart of Austin. Have we learned nothing? (Answer: apparently not.)
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A Youtuber who goes by donoteat01 brilliantly uses the Cities:Skylines video game as a storytelling tool—in this case, to help us understand the ugly human consequences of the postwar urban freeway-building era.
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If you can’t justify your half-a-billion-dollar freeway widening project with the usual argument, why not try a different one: that it will reduce crashes? Unfortunately, there’s no evidence for this either.
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