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And They All Come Tumbling Down: A Training for Highways-to-Boulevards Activists
Submitted by cghoshal@cnu.org on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 5:11pmJoin CNU, experts in highway removal and surface street conversion, and activists around the country for a lively conversation on January 27, 2012 at 1:00 PM CST. Three speakers will briefly present key lessons learned in highway removal campaigns across the country, including how to shift political... read more »
The Future of Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans
Submitted by cghoshal@cnu.org on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 1:52pm
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Highway Interchange Land Use Comparison
Submitted by Robert Bielaski on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 11:59amBelow is the letter I wrote to my state senator about land use for highway interchanges in the Chicago area:
Dear Senator Collins:
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John Norquist Heads to Alabama for a Road Block
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:34amJohn Norquist is in Birmingham, Alabama today to help RETHINK280, the organization fighting the proposed $800 million expansion of U.S. 280 with the construction of a 10-lane Atlanta-style freeway from the Elton Stephens Expressway to Dolly Ridge Road.
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Big Dig West Conversation Ratchets Up
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:09amThe Battle in Seattle continues. Standing tall with Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, CNU has been at the forefront of the fight in opposition to the $3.1 billion bored hole tunnel that is slated to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Over the last week, the conversation has ratcheted up, with a flurry of op... read more »
A Personal Plea from El Paso
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 11:46amThe following blog post comes to CNU via El Paso City Council member Susie Byrd.
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Seattle's Tunnel Debacle Continues
Submitted by norabeck on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 3:02pmCheck out Dominic Holden's assessment of the Seattle City Council actions to allow the State to replace Alaskan Way Viaduct with a deep-bore tunnel in the Stranger's What Could Possibly Go Wrong, July 7, 2010.... read more »
Putting a lid on the Downtown Connector at the Urban Labs luncheon
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 4:41amTalk about power lunching. At yesterday's Urban Labs lunch, at St. Luke's Church, a few minutes' walk from the Hilton, those of us at Table 1-A finished off our box lunches and then within about an hour sketched out a possible solution to a vexing problem of downtown Atlanta - the Downtown Connector... read more »
Congress Still Can't Find Main Street: Op-Ed in Charlotte Observer
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 12:54pmShouldn't the new "Jobs for Main Streets" stimulus bill actually fund walkable, bikable transit-friendly main streets, rather than just auto-only highways?
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Bill Hudnut on How to Fix Transportation Planning
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 12:35pmAs I have written before, I believe most of the issues of growth, mobility, equity and the env
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