PennDOT’s Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts

From lying about survey results to misrepresenting traffic data, the impending expansion of Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania exemplifies so much of what is insidious and manipulative about highway expansion projects.

Top StoryAsia MieleszkoSeptember 19, 2024end highway expansion, pennsylvania, engineering ethics, highway spending, segregation

American Bridges Are Falling Apart and There’s No Plan To Fix Them

Washington's Department of Transportation recently reported that they’re weight restricting another bridge because it’s becoming dangerously old. This is a symptom of a problem that stretches across North America: grossly misplaced priorities. It's time for a serious reevaluation of transportation spending priorities.

News, Top StoryAsia MieleszkoAugust 13, 2024end highway expansion, infrastructure maintenance, washington, highway spending, financial solvency

Megan Kimble: The Toll Urban Highways Take and the People Fighting Back

Megan Kimble, journalist and author of “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways,” joins us to talk about highway expansion in Texas and the groups fighting to stop it.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsMay 20, 2024podcast, end highway expansion, texas, highway spending, department of transportation

5 Reasons Why We Should End Highway Expansion

We have to end highway expansion and focus on projects that actually build wealth in our cities. If you’re not convinced, then read on.

Top StorySeairra JonesMarch 15, 2024end highway expansion, highways, highway spending, infrastructure cost, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance

America *Must* End Highway Expansions

Until we have a credible plan for maintaining our existing transportation infrastructure, we must stop building more roads and bridges. Period.

Top StoryStrong TownsFebruary 15, 2024highways, highway spending, transportation, transportation spending, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, maintenance, freeways, freeway widening

3 of the Worst Highway Expansion Projects Singled Out by the Highway Boondoggles Report

The latest Highway Boondoggles Report is out, showcasing just how much money is being wasted on highway expansion projects across the U.S.

Top StoryAsia MieleszkoNovember 9, 2023highway spending, end highway expansion, freeway widening, infrastructure, federal funding

State Overreach of Power Demands Neighborhood Be Torn Down for New Interchange

Despite overwhelming local opposition, the Ohio government is forcing an interchange project on the city of Brunswick, threatening homes and funds that had originally been set aside for walkability projects.

News, Top StorySeairra JonesAugust 9, 2023end highway expansion, ohio, highway spending, freeway widening, infrastructure

Breaking: Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Turnpike Authority

Despite earlier legal success, protestors against the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority now find themselves facing a setback from the Oklahoma Supreme Court—though they’re not letting that stop them.

Top Story, NewsAsia MieleszkoJune 8, 2023oklahoma, freeway widening, highway spending, infrastructure, end highway expansion

ODOT’s Rose Quarter Tolling Contradiction

ODOT maintains it will use tolls to pay for the I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway widening project, but that it doesn’t need to evaluate tolling as part of the project’s environmental assessment, because tolling isn’t “reasonably foreseeable.”

Top StoryJoe CortrightMay 23, 2023freeway widening, freeways, highways, highway spending, toll roads, environment, end highway expansion, oregon

The Road Expansion Lobby Doesn’t Want You to Read This

Let’s bust five myths on this highway expansion project.

Top StoryMichel Durand-WoodMay 15, 2023highways, highway spending, local government, budget, freeway widening, induced demand, end highway expansion, transparent local accounting, canada

Can Expanding Roads Solve Homelessness?

A recent advertising insert in the Winnipeg Free Press would have us believe that road expansion will solve not only homelessness, but crime and addiction, as well. Let's investigate these lofty claims.

Top StoryMichel Durand-WoodApril 26, 2023transportation spending, active transportation, transit, canada, highways, highway spending, freeway widening, economic growth, end highway expansion, homeless

Breaking News: Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Stops Work on $15 Billion Turnpike Expansion

Oklahoma’s freeway fighters are resting a little easier this week, having learned that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is halting all work related to the $15 billion turnpike expansion, ACCESS Oklahoma.

News, Top StoryAsia MieleszkoApril 14, 2023oklahoma, highways, highway spending, success stories, end highway expansion

ODOT Proposes That Commuters Pay $600–2,200 per Year for Highway Expansion

ODOT’s expansion of I-205—and subsequent tolling—might make it so that the average household will be spending 8.7% of their household income on transportation needs.

Top StoryJoe CortrightFebruary 28, 2023highways, highway spending, transportation, transportation spending, toll roads, freeway widening, end highway expansion, oregon, infrastructure

Highway Ramps Promised To Deliver Chester From Hardship. Residents Are Still Waiting.

10 years ago, PennDOT promised that two new highway ramps in Chester, PA, would produce “an explosion of economic development.” Now, the city is filing for bankruptcy.

News, Top StoryAsia MieleszkoFebruary 27, 2023DOT, highway spending, Economy, end highway expansion, pennsylvania, municipal finance

The Governor of Missouri Wants to Spend $859 Million on Highway Expansion

A proposed highway expansion in Missouri will not only bulldoze through key areas in and around downtown St. Louis, but it’s also going to cost $859 million. Let’s go over some better ways that money could be spent.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsJanuary 25, 2023podcast, infrastructure, infrastructure spending, highways, highway spending, missouri, upzoned, end highway expansion

What Does $106 Million Get You in Maine? A Redundant Highway Expansion That Nobody Wants.

Maine residents want road maintenance. MaineDOT is giving them more roads.

NewsSeairra JonesNovember 8, 2022Nero Project, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure cost, highways, highway spending, transportation, transportation spending, Maine, maintenance, end highway expansion

This Seattle Highway Is Facing a $29 Million Financial Crisis

State Route 99 was a long-anticipated project in Seattle, WA, but this multimillion-dollar highway expansion hasn’t recouped nearly enough money to make up for its costs.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsOctober 27, 2022podcast, highways, highway spending, transportation, transportation spending, upzoned, washington, end highway expansion

The Highway Boondoggles Report

Frontier Group’s Tony Dutzik comes onto the podcast today to talk about their annual “Highway Boondoggles” report. In light of last year’s infrastructure bill, just how much funding is being wasted on highway expansion?

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsOctober 24, 2022podcast, highways, highway spending, freeway widening, freeways, transportation, infrastructure, infrastructure cost, end highway expansion

$4.7 Billion New Jersey Turnpike Expansion Ignores Local Leaders and Invites More Gridlock

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority plans to spend $4.7 billion updating and widening an eight-mile section of the turnpike, in the hopes of relieving congestion. Here’s why it’s not going to help.