Infrastructure
Should the CTA adopt women-only transit? Interviews with Chicago women suggest yes
January 15, 2021
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.
January 11, 2021
Georgia Senate Wins Put Major Transportation Reform Within Reach
Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
January 6, 2021
Boston Has a Choice Between Two Transportation Futures
Unlike some other projects in this report, there is no escaping the need for major investment in transportation infrastructure in this section of Boston. The question is how.
January 1, 2021
Highway Boondoggles 2020: S.E. Connector, Texas
This $1.6-billion project would also use valuable state resources even as basic transit needs in Fort Worth go unmet.
December 30, 2020
Five Road Widening Myths That Are Delaying Climate Action
These convenient excuses help your transportation department justify widening and adding highways – but they’re dead wrong.
December 29, 2020
Highway Boondoggles 2020: M-CORES, Florida
Despite $1 billion in budget cuts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida's 2020-21 budget still includes $90 million for this boondoggle, which could threaten the endangered Florida panther with extinction.
December 28, 2020
Highway Boondoggles 2020: I-526 Extension in S.C.
The I-526 extension would have minimal impact on travel times, saving drivers mere seconds at the expense of the region's protected wetlands.
December 24, 2020
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Birmingham’s Northern Beltline
The $5.3-billion project is a 52-mile, six-lane expressway that's almost entirely reliant on intermittent and insufficient federal funding, and scheduled to take at least 40 years to complete.
December 23, 2020
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Illinois’s I-57 Interchange
Illinois officials have budgeted $206 million for a new interchange on I-57 that would take drivers onto a road through undeveloped farmland 44 miles south of Chicago in Will County, Illinois.
December 21, 2020
