Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Freeways

Metro and Caltrans 605/60 Freeway Widening Project Could Demolish San Gabriel Valley Homes

By Joe Linton | May 11, 2023 | No Comments

Early designs for Metro and Caltrans 605 Freeway Corridor Improvement Project (605CIP) show more than a dozen home demolitions in South El Monte and Pellissier Village

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A Teen Activist’s Message to Transportation Leaders That Everyone Needs To Hear

By Kea Wilson | May 4, 2023 | No Comments

Teenage climate organizers in Oregon are standing up against a freeway expansion that will threaten their generation's very future — and sending a message to adult policymakers that the connection between car dependency and the climate crisis can no longer be ignored.

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In Oklahoma, a Victory for Defenders Against a Freeway Expansion

By Asia Mieleszko | Apr 21, 2023 | No Comments

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

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These 10 Urban Freeways Deserve To Be Demolished — But Will They?

By Kea Wilson | Apr 19, 2023 | No Comments

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.

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Not a Surprise: 101 Freeway Widening Shows Negative Results

By Roger Rudick | Apr 13, 2023 | No Comments

Engineer on 101 project admits $600 million freeway widening accomplished nothing

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Alhambra Planning to Reconfigure its 710 Freeway Stub

By Chris Greenspon | Mar 30, 2023 | No Comments

The city presented a batch of ideas that increase capacity and use of the 10 Freeway, but also includes some protected active transportation facilities

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