Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Boondoggles

Highway Boondoggles: New Mexico’s Paseo del Volcan Extension

By John Olivieri and Jeff Inglis | Jan 29, 2016 | 1 Comment

In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. The proposed Paseo del Volcan Extension, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a textbook example of a project intended to induce and subsidize suburban sprawl. The idea of building a road through […]

Highway Boondoggles: Washington’s Puget Sound Gateway Project

By John Olivieri and Jeff Inglis | Jan 27, 2016 | 1 Comment

In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we look at a classic — Washington’s $3 billion “Puget Sound Gateway Project.” Washington plans to spend billions on the Puget Sound Gateway project to “relieve congestion,” but if anything the project will increase it. […]

Highway Boondoggles: North Carolina’s I-77 Express Lanes

By Jeff Inglis and John Olivieri | Jan 26, 2016 | No Comments

In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Today we look at an expansion of I-77 in North Carolina that circumvented the normal project selection process thanks to a dubious financing plan. A $637 million highway project that doesn’t […]

Highway Boondoggles: Widening I-70 in Denver

By Jeff Inglis and John Olivieri | Jan 25, 2016 | No Comments

In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the original came out in 2014), U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group teamed up to profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Streetsblog will be serializing the case studies in the report. Today, we look at the widening of I-70 in Denver, a project with a […]

Highway Boondoggles: California’s 710 Tunnel

By Jeff Inglis and John Olivieri | Jan 22, 2016 | No Comments

A proposal to drill a pair of highway tunnels is the most expensive, most polluting, least effective option for solving the San Gabriel Valley’s transportation problems. A highway linking I-710 from Alhambra to I-210/ SR-710 in Pasadena was first proposed in the late 1950s. Ever since, efforts to build the highway have run into obstacles including […]

Highway Boondoggles: Tampa Bay Express Lanes

By Jeff Inglis and John Olivieri | Jan 20, 2016 | 1 Comment

In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the original came out in 2014), U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group teamed up to profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Streetsblog will be serializing the case studies in the report. Yesterday, we looked at Connecticut’s $11.5 billion I-95 widening. Today, we focus on a proposed $3.3 billion […]

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