Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Highway Removal

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has been driving many of the cuts in the Build Back Better Act. Image: Third Way

What's In (And What's Out Of) the New Biden Bill

By Kea Wilson | Nov 2, 2021 | No Comments

Most programs favored by sustainable transportation advocates have survived negotiations over the massive social infrastructure package that's held up the country's transportation ambitions for months — though a few of them have gotten a little skinnier.

National Landing in Northern Virginia, where the local business improvement district wants to convert an elevated highway that divides National Landing’s downtown into a walkable boulevard with narrower lanes and slower car speeds. Image: Sblover99/Wikipedia, CC

Op-Ed: Will States and Feds Let Cities Tame Urban Highways?

By Scott Beyer | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

Urban highways are a fixture of city life in the U.S. — but much of the time cities don’t control them. Could that change?

San Francisco's Great Highway after it was given the "freeways to boulevard" treatment in April, 2020. But that was a COVID-era plan that may not be permanent.

These 15 Urban Highways Have Got to Go

By Kea Wilson | Jun 2, 2021 | No Comments

A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of BIPOC residents were forcibly displaced — including the site of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.

Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan

By Aaron Short | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

Transportation leaders believe President Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure bill will finally get states to stop splurging federal dollars on freeway projects and emissions-enabling concrete superstructures that carve up cities.

Texas Highway Boondoggle Dealt Blow by Feds

By Kea Wilson | Mar 12, 2021 | No Comments

One of Texas's most-notorious highway expansion projects is being put on pause, thanks to a U.S. Department of Transportation that's newly committed to mitigating the racist impacts of federally funded transportation projects.

Young Marvin Anderson watches the destruction of his neighborhood to make way for I-94. More than half a century later, he's leading an effort to rebuild some of what the historically Black Rondo region lost. Courtesy: Reconnect Rondo

Can a Land Bridge Restore What a Black Community Lost?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 19, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.

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