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Why Small Cities Torn Apart By Highways Need Extra Help to Heal
A new program will help smaller communities start the process of redesigning highways and other transportation investments that tore apart their communities — and shine a light on why it’s so hard for them to do it without outside help.
June 12, 2023
A Teen Activist’s Message to Transportation Leaders That Everyone Needs To Hear
Teenage climate organizers are standing up to adult policymakers.
May 7, 2023
These 10 Urban Freeways Deserve To Be Demolished — But Will They?
America is at a watershed moment in the fight to heal the harms of urban freeways that tore apart predominantly BIPOC and low-income communities, a new report argues — but what that healing will look like, exactly, is still an open question.
April 19, 2023
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
Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects
"So many neighborhoods across the country are saddled with an aging, unsafe, polluting piece of highway infrastructure. We have to do something about it," says one activist.
May 19, 2022
Visionary Highway Removal Program Axed from Fed Infrastructure Package
August 2, 2021
OPINION: The Time To Cap the Cross Bronx Is Now
President Biden's infrastructure bill creates an opening for rectifying a deadly historical wrong.
April 23, 2021
