Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Highway Expansion

Highway Boondoggles, Part VII: Oregon’s Abernethy Insanity

By Matthew Casale, James Horrox and Bryn Huxley-Reicher | Sep 21, 2022 | No Comments

In our final installment of our annual Highway Boondoggles series with U.S. PIRG., we look at bridge widening that circumvented the National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Impact Assessment process.

Highway Boondoggles Part V: Duluth’s ‘Can of Worms’

By James Horrox, Bryn Huxley-Reicher and Matthew Casale | Sep 19, 2022 | No Comments

It’s sometimes said that Minnesota has two seasons: winter and road construction. In Duluth, an ongoing, multiyear highway project has sucked up millions of taxpayer dollars on a road that many residents believe shouldn’t even be there in the first place.

Mile-High City Halts Two Highway Expansions — And Gives the Money to Transit Instead

By Kea Wilson | Sep 15, 2022 | No Comments

Colorado will cancel two planned highway expansions, citing a new climate rule that advocates say should be a model for communities across America.

I-5 northbound through the Rose Quarter.
Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland

UPDATE: Awful Highway Expansions in Denver and Portland are Facing New Hurdles

By Aaron Short | May 25, 2022 | No Comments

Denver and Portland highway projects are being seen for what they are.

A protest against the Lower Manhattan Expressway, 1968.

Freeway Fighters Across the U.S. Are Joining Forces — And They Want You

By Kea Wilson | Apr 27, 2022 | No Comments

America's midcentury freeway revolts never really stopped — and now, the advocates behind them are joining forces to create what may be the largest organized national effort to prioritize communities over highways yet.

The current Columbia River Bridge is slated to be replaced with one that has room for light rail. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Two Big Reasons States Keep Expanding Freeways

By Joe Cortright | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

Highway widening advocates offer up a kind of manifest destiny storyline: population and traffic are ever-increasing, and unless we accommodate them we’ll be awash in cars, traffic and gridlock. The rising tide of cars is treated as a irresistible force of nature. But is it?

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