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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
Metro and Caltrans 605/60 Freeway Widening Project Could Demolish San Gabriel Valley Homes
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
May 11, 2023
A Teen Activist’s Message to Transportation Leaders That Everyone Needs To Hear
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.
May 4, 2023
In Oklahoma, a Victory for Defenders Against a Freeway Expansion
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.
April 21, 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
Not a Surprise: 101 Freeway Widening Shows Negative Results
Engineer on 101 project admits $600 million freeway widening accomplished nothing
April 13, 2023
Alhambra Planning to Reconfigure its 710 Freeway Stub
The city presented a batch of ideas that increase capacity and use of the 10 Freeway, but also includes some protected active transportation facilities
March 30, 2023
Bait and Switch: Caltrans and Metro Quietly Scale Back 71 Freeway Widening in Pomona
Metro and Caltrans had promoted the project as a nearly 2-mile long freeway widening, with an upgraded pedestrian overcrossing - but it has been scaled back to a 1.5 mile widening with no pedestrian component
March 3, 2023
Freeway Fighters List Their Top Five Needs For 2023
Transportation for America and America Walks recently surveyed organizations fighting freeways all across the country to get a better sense of what they need to win, and the results are both inspiring and daunting.
March 3, 2023
Federal Reconnecting Communities Program Announces First Grants, Four In California
This is the DOT's first move towards repairing damage done by building highways through communities is $185 million for 45 projects that remove, retrofit, or somehow mitigate barriers created by highways - and railroad tracks.
February 28, 2023
