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How to Debunk the ‘Need’ for Destructive Road Widenings
Transportation agencies have a thousand reasons why they need "just one more lane, bro." Here's how to spot their distortions and lies and call them out.
August 11, 2024
Advocates Share What It Takes to Fight Highway Expansions in Court
What does it take to sue your state DOT? Time, money, the right partners, and a little creativity, a recent survey of activists found.
Haleema Bharoocha
July 18, 2024
‘A Petition, a Website, and a T-shirt’: Ann Arbor Advocates Share Tips for Canceling Highway Expansions
Ann Arbor advocates helped get a destructive and wasteful highway expansion thrown out — and they have some ideas on how you can, too.
June 9, 2024
California Transportation Commission This Week: Funding for I-80 Yolo Causeway Widening
Clearly Caltrans leadership doesn't take its own guidelines on mitigating induced travel very seriously.
The post California Transportation Commission This Week: Funding for I-80 Yolo Causeway Widening appeared first on Streetsblog California.
May 14, 2024
How to Fight a Texas-Sized Freeway Battle
A new book explores how Texas advocates are fighting back against destructive highway expansions. But what happened to those projects since it was sent to the printer?
May 6, 2024
CTC Approves Controversial I-15 Expansion, After All
Commissioners had already made up their minds to approve, and cut short questions from Commissioner Joe Lyou to get it over with
The post CTC Approves Controversial I-15 Expansion, After All appeared first on Streetsblog California.
February 2, 2024
MTC Backs Off Highway Widening After Outpouring of Community Opposition
It was a clear signal that Bay Area voters want transformational investments in safe, reliable, and accessible transportation for all, not status quo proposals that reflect outdated thinking at odds with our region’s climate and equity values.
Zack Deutsch-Gross
January 25, 2024
Commentary: Kill the Projects, Break up Caltrans and Partner Agencies that Refuse to Stop Widening
Lawmakers, advocates, and commissioners are just starting to get serious about stopping California's asphalt addiction. But they have to get more radical to succeed.
January 25, 2024
Advocates to MTC: NO MORE WIDENING
All the major advocacy groups want to make it clear to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission: they won't support a regional measure that includes freeway widening
January 11, 2024
What’s on Caltrans’s $16B Holiday SHOPP-ing List?
The $15.7 billion State Highway Operations and Protection Program is one of the state’s biggest infrastructure packages. But what’s really in the 599 projects?
The post What’s on Caltrans’s $16B Holiday SHOPP-ing List? appeared first on Streetsblog California.
Carter Rubin
December 21, 2023
