Road-Widening Project Threatens 30-Year-Old Farmers Market

Residents of Mooresville, NC, are outraged as a road-widening project and ensuing regulatory dispute pushed by city officials threaten the future of a longstanding farmers market.

News, Top StorySeairra JonesJanuary 23, 2023farmer's market, local business, local government, North Carolina, DOT, freeway widening, end highway expansion 2 Comments

Ruling: Oklahoma Turnpike Authority “Willfully” Misled Public to Force $5 Billion Expansion Project

The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority faces multiple lawsuits, with plaintiffs alleging its plans for an imminent turnpike expansion project not only lacked transparency, but were illegal.

News, Top StoryAsia MieleszkoJanuary 16, 2023transportation, infrastructure, oklahoma, DOT, highways, freeway widening, end highway expansion Be the First to Comment

Everything Is a Safety Improvement

…At least, according to the transportation professionals who advance harmful infrastructure projects in the communities they’re supposed to serve.

Top StoryAsia MieleszkoJanuary 10, 2023engineers, engineering ethics, end highway expansion, safety, infrastructure Be the First to Comment

MoDOT Is Proud of Their Highways. Missourians, Not So Much.

MoDOT recently put out a tweet celebrating the 50-year anniversary of a highway that tore up Kansas City’s downtown. Here are just some of the (rightfully) angry reactions they got.

Marohn, Top Story, NewsCharles MarohnNovember 10, 2022missouri, DOT, transportation, highways, urban freeways, freeways, infrastructure cult, infrastructure, engineers, traffic engineering, end highway expansion 4 Comments

What Does $106 Million Get You in Maine? A Redundant Highway Expansion That Nobody Wants.

Maine residents want road maintenance. MaineDOT is giving them more roads.

NewsSeairra JonesNovember 8, 2022Nero Project, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure cost, highways, highway spending, transportation, transportation spending, Maine, maintenance, end highway expansion 1 Comment

$McGilchrist Still Isn’t an Improvement, but Here’s the Math$

McGilchrist Still Isn’t an Improvement, but Here’s the Math

We've said it'll take 39 years for Salem, OR, to recoup the money they're spending on the McGilchrist Street “Improvement” Project, and you've asked us to provide more proof for this assertion. So, let's do the math.

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnNovember 2, 2022transportation, transportation spending, traffic engineering, projections, end highway expansion, transparent local accounting, safe and productive streets, oregon, local economy 14 Comments

This Seattle Highway Is Facing a $29 Million Financial Crisis

State Route 99 was a long-anticipated project in Seattle, WA, but this multimillion-dollar highway expansion hasn’t recouped nearly enough money to make up for its costs.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsOctober 27, 2022podcast, highways, highway spending, transportation, transportation spending, upzoned, washington, end highway expansion 4 Comments

CDOT Leads the Way in Not Building Highways

Traffic headaches in Denver, CO, have caused the state to realize that widening highways just isn’t working, anymore. Instead, Colorado is making a huge shift in its transportation priorities.

Top StorySeairra JonesOctober 25, 2022success stories, colorado, transportation, infrastructure, local government, end highway expansion 2 Comments

The Highway Boondoggles Report

Frontier Group’s Tony Dutzik comes onto the podcast today to talk about their annual “Highway Boondoggles” report. In light of last year’s infrastructure bill, just how much funding is being wasted on highway expansion?

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsOctober 24, 2022podcast, highways, highway spending, freeway widening, freeways, transportation, infrastructure, infrastructure cost, end highway expansion Be the First to Comment

That's Not an Improvement

Engineers who work on municipal infrastructure need to stop ubiquitously describing their projects as “improvements”—especially when the project is actually harmful, not helpful.

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnOctober 10, 2022traffic engineering, engineers, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure cost, transportation, transportation spending, freeway widening, end highway expansion, safe and productive streets 19 Comments

$4.7 Billion New Jersey Turnpike Expansion Ignores Local Leaders and Invites More Gridlock

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority plans to spend $4.7 billion updating and widening an eight-mile section of the turnpike, in the hopes of relieving congestion. Here’s why it’s not going to help.

Top StoryKelcie Ralph and Nicholas KleinSeptember 15, 2022highways, highway spending, freeways, freeway widening, congestion, traffic congestion, congestion pricing, local government, transportation spending, infrastructure spending, transportation, end highway expansion, new jersey 5 Comments

Remove Highway 99: A Crazy Idea in “Deep” South Park

What was once a fringe idea to convince the state of Washington to turn a section of Highway 99 over to local control has grown into a publicly funded action.

Top StoryJay StangeAugust 31, 2022highways, freeway removal, freeways, urban freeways, suburban experiment, washington, end highway expansion Be the First to Comment

A Rough Beast Slouches Toward the Brent Spence Bridge

As local and regional politicians move forward on a $3 billion highway widening project, a local group of activists in Cincinnati are fighting for an alternative plan.

Top StoryRyan CraneAugust 22, 2022highways, freeway widening, race, infrastructure, infrastructure cult, transportation, transportation spending, end highway expansion, ohio 6 Comments

The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Campaigning to Get Rid of an Urban Highway

Amy Stelly is advocating to remove a harmful highway in her New Orleans neighborhood.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsAugust 18, 2022highways, end highway expansion, podcast, louisiana Be the First to Comment

Why Is Rhode Island Building New Roads When Its Current Roads Are Falling Apart?

Rhode Island has built far more highways than it can afford to maintain. So why on earth is it building another one?

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnAugust 15, 2022highways, highway spending, maintenance, infrastructure, infrastructure cult, Nero Project, Rhode Island, DOT, roads, end highway expansion Be the First to Comment

10 Recommendations for Freeway Fighters

From one freeway fighter to any aspiring freeway fighters out there: Here’s 10 things to keep in mind as you advocate for highway removal in your community.

Top StoryJay ArzuAugust 4, 2022highways, freeway removal, freeways, urban freeways, advocacy, taking action, infrastructure, end highway expansion 2 Comments

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Transit Edition)

Don’t be fooled: Winnipeg’s newly proposed “rapid transit” project is actually a road-widening project in disguise. And it aims to borrow money so the City can destroy millions of dollars of its own tax base.