Freeway Widenings

New off-ramps have begun to sprout out of the dirt, and widening surface streets are going through the growing pains of construction closures

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.

What does it take to sue your state DOT? Time, money, the right partners, and a little creativity, a recent survey of activists found.

Ann Arbor advocates helped get a destructive and wasteful highway expansion thrown out — and they have some ideas on how you can, too.

Clearly Caltrans leadership doesn't take its own guidelines on mitigating induced travel very seriously.

Melanie Curry

May 14, 2024

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?

"Endless highway expansions are pulling our country into an environmental, budgetary, and public health crisis," the letter states.

Commissioners had already made up their minds to approve, and cut short questions from Commissioner Joe Lyou to get it over with

Melanie Curry

February 3, 2024