Texas Will Pour Billions More Into Pointless Freeway Expansions That Just Don't Work
"Houston already has the widest freeway in the country, the 26-lane Katy Freeway. Of the billions set aside for highways, just $45.2 million is being given to public transportation for the whole state...Bicycle and public transit plans are merely mentioned in the budget, even with things like bicycling and walking activity increasing in Texas"
#Texas #Highways #CarsRuinEverything
Texas Will Pour Billions More Into Pointless Freeway Expansions That Just Don't Work
How to Debunk the ‘Need’ for Destructive Road Widenings
(Like I-65 in Indianapolis, for example)
"When people see cars traveling freely over a recently expanded highway [or other road], they will recalibrate their travel decisions. Some will choose to drive at rush hour when they would have otherwise driven at a non-peak time, taken public transit, or perhaps not traveled at all."
How to Debunk the 'Need' for Destructive Road Widenings — Streetsblog USA
"I-65 Safety and Efficiency is expected to include added capacity primarily using the existing shoulder, the widening of three bridges, the replacement of one bridge, pavement patching and resurfacing and improvements to multiple drainage structures."
This looks like an absolute disaster. I love how they keep throwing "safety" into it as if there was anything safe about pollution-spewing vehicles going 90 miles an hour.
#HoosierMast #Indianapolis #Highways
Colorado adopts rule requiring CDOT to prove how any highway expansion project would reduce pollution.
"Within a year, the department nixed two major highway widening projects and redirected $100 million to greener alternatives like better public transit."
What's not pointed out in the article is that CDOT could have simply claimed they were reducing pollution by reducing congestion by expanding highways - that they did not indicates real buy-in.
California’s budget crunch is fueling a fight over whether to spend scarce dollars on highways or walkways.
"Environmentalists say the money — $200 million in each of the next three fiscal years — won’t make a significant dent in the state’s $5.2 billion highway account. “We hear the administration say, ‘Well, with the deficit, we have to make these painful cuts,’ but they’re not cutting back on road building"
Biden administration steps in on Caltrans’ Highway 99 expansion in Fresno
"Citing potential procedural mistakes by the Federal Highway Administration, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has ordered a reevaluation of the agency’s decision to exempt two interchange expansions, on North and American Avenues, from a Clean Air Act analysis."
Highway 99 project in Fresno takes second look at air quality
Stopping Interstate 11 through Arizona.
"Transportation officials face a troubling choice in one of the southernmost sections of the road’s 280-mile route: ramming through populous downtown Tucson to the east, or decimating the fragile Sonoran desert to the west, bulldozing many of the iconic giant cacti where the owls make their nests in the process."
Can This Tiny Owl Defeat One of America's Biggest Highway Projects? — Streetsblog USA
New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways
"For decades, Strongsville has pushed for an interchange at Interstate 71 and Brunswick’s Boston Road, while Brunswick pushed back in an effort to preserve its growing neighborhood"
"State Representative Tom Patton overrode the system, ignored local desires, and dictated the interchange be completed through the law."
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/10/new-ohio-law-promises-to-tear-down-neighborhoods-for-highways