Highway Removal
‘Freeway Exit’ Podcast Tells San Diego’s Freeway Histories of Growth, Displacement, and Division
"Freeways are not free. We pay for them in all kinds of ways — with our tax dollars, our time, our environment and our health."
July 13, 2023
Study: Two-Thirds of Americans Know Highway Expansions Don’t Cure Traffic
"The public is way ahead of the elected officials, and it's way ahead of the transportation officials in [talking about] the kind of future they want to see."
June 29, 2023
Why Small Cities Torn Apart By Highways Need Extra Help to Heal
A new program will help smaller communities start the process of redesigning highways and other transportation investments that tore apart their communities — and shine a light on why it’s so hard for them to do it without outside help
June 12, 2023
These 10 Urban Freeways Deserve To Be Demolished — But Will They?
America is at a watershed moment in the fight to heal the harms of urban freeways that tore apart predominantly BIPOC and low-income communities, a new report argues — but what that healing will look like, exactly, is still an open question.
April 19, 2023
Freeway Fighters List Their Top Five Needs For 2023
so? Transportation for America and America Walks recently surveyed organizations fighting freeways all across the country to get a better sense of what they need to win, and the results are both inspiring and daunting.
March 3, 2023
Syracuse’s Messy I-81 Teardown Fight Shows the Challenge of ‘Reconnecting Communities’
An 11th-hour legal battle over the future of one of America's most talked-about highway teardowns is sparking a debate about what it really means to "reconnect communities" devastated by highway construction — and possibly offering a preview of similar fights on deck in other U.S. cities.
December 12, 2022
Advocates Warn ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Could Actually Expand Highways
A massive coalition of advocates is calling on the federal Department of Transportation to make sure a historic fund that could tear down harmful urban highways across America isn't used to expand or maintain them instead.
November 3, 2022
Op-Ed: To Heal Historic Highway Harms, Sec. Buttigieg Needs Bold Thinking
Entrenched state departments of transportation dedicated to highway building threaten to capture Reconnecting Communities grant funds to continue harm — not undo it.
September 22, 2022
Feds Using Freight Program Money to Tear Down a Detroit Highway
“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.
September 22, 2022
What’s in the New ‘Climate’ Deal for Sustainable Transport — And What’s Not
The Senate is on the brink of passing one of the most robust climate spending bills in U.S. history — but sustainable transportation advocates say it won't do enough to decarbonize the transportation sector.
July 29, 2022
