Highway Removal
Paradigm-Shifting Highway Teardown Gaining Traction in Tampa
#BlvdTampa is the rallying cry of a grassroots group that wants to tear down Interstate 275 and convert it to a boulevard. They're starting to gain traction.
May 10, 2019
Street Grid to Replace Old I-81 in Syracuse, NYS Decides
New York State says it will tear down an elevated highway in Syracuse and replace it with a walkable street grid.
April 22, 2019
Seattle’s Viadoom: The ‘Carmageddon’ That Wasn’t
We've seen this before: Freeways induce driving and when one closes people adapt their choices accordingly. There is no "carmageddon" after all.
January 24, 2019
Biking Way up in Seattle During Highway Closure
Biking has almost doubled along major corridors in Seattle as the city enters the fourth day of "Viadoom" -- the highly publicized closure of State Route 99.
January 17, 2019
North Carolina DOT Threatens to Steamroll Asheville’s Highway-to-Boulevard Plans
Asheville has a plan to salvage part of its city from a highway. But North Carolina DOT wants to rush forward with a highway rebuild without committing to that plan.
June 28, 2018
Building Highways Made Racial Segregation Worse. Can Removing Them Undo That Legacy?
The teardown of I-81 in Syracuse presents an opportunity to rebuild Syracuse in a way that rights past injustices.
June 7, 2018
A New Neighborhood Will Replace a Sunken Rochester Highway
With a portion of the Inner Loop highway filled in, Rochester is ready to reconnect its downtown to the East End neighborhood.
March 1, 2018
Buffalo Advocates Convince New York DOT to Rethink a Half-Baked Highway Removal
The state had pushed a "boulevard" design that was too much like the highway it was supposed to replace.
January 9, 2018
Texas DOT Open to Burying Highway That Cuts Through Dallas
Though it's not the highway teardown advocates want, TxDOT is now considering putting 1.3-miles of I-345 underground.
October 18, 2017
Too Many State DOTs Are Little More Than Highway Departments
In the last 50 years, nearly every state agency that used to call itself the "highway department" has changed its name to the "department of transportation" to reflect a change in mission. But in practice, many state DOTs still operate strictly as highway departments.
August 23, 2017
