Highway Boondoggles 2023: The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly in … Gorham
Here's a self-defeating new highway that will merely exacerbate suburban sprawl — reinforcing the very conditions that are causing the traffic problems in the first place!
November 27, 2023
Highway Boondoggles 2023: Pandering in the Panhandle
How bad is this boondoggle? Supporters are trying to sell it as if it includes a fancy deck plaza — which it does not.
November 24, 2023
Highway Boondoggles 2023: A Cape Cod Canard
It's not just the replacement of the Bourne and Sagamore bridges that's the problem — it's all the other highways that will turn Cape Cod into a parking lot.
November 15, 2023
Highway Boondoggles 2023: This Year’s Poster Children for Bad Projects
Once again, transportation funds that could be used to repair streets, roads and bridges are instead diverted into costly, damaging highway expansion projects. Here's this year's list of the worst of the worst.
November 10, 2023
Highway Boondoggles Part V: Duluth’s ‘Can of Worms’
It’s sometimes said that Minnesota has two seasons: winter and road construction. In Duluth, an ongoing, multiyear highway project has sucked up millions of taxpayer dollars on a road that many residents believe shouldn’t even be there in the first place.
September 20, 2022
Highway Boondoggles, Part IV: Erie’s ‘Mistake by the Lake’
A proposed highway will make traffic worse ... and cut off the waterfront.
September 19, 2022
Highway Boondoggles, Part I: Maryland’s Misguided Highway Extension
Here's the first installment of this year's "Highway Boondoggles" series — we'll start in Montgomery County, Maryland.
September 14, 2022
How the Infrastructure Law Could Fast-Track Harmful Highway Boondoggles
Federal money could be spent on fixing our aging roads, making our streets safer, and making it easier to travel on transit, by bike or on foot, giving Americans real, viable options for getting around without having to drive. Unfortunately, though, it won't.
September 13, 2022
