• The launch of Freeways Without Futures 2021

    Know a highway that’s got to go? Submit a nomination before November 25, 2020.
    This week the Congress for the New Urbanism launches our call for nominations to the seventh edition of its Freeways Without Futures report. Since its inception in 2008, our biennial report has covered over 30 different urban highways that burden the communities around them with significant health...Read more

  • A federal Highways to Boulevards program is the infrastructure project a healthy and equitable America needs

    Editor's note: Join us Tuesday, August 25th, for On the Park Bench: Equity-Driven Planning, a 2 p.m. (Eastern) webinar with Mitchell Silver, New York City Parks Commissioner, who will exhibit a variety of ways that equity, inclusivity, and diversity can enhance and enrich the urban realm. Register...Read more

  • The impact of highway removal on cities

    A new report by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy examines the highways-to-boulevards trend and how this will impact cities in coming years.
    With the Interstate Highway System in its seventh decade, some of the biggest highway projects involve deconstruction, according to a new report from The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Cities and states are trading highways for boulevards and connected streets...Read more

  • Supporting a federal role in highway removal

    Highways to Boulevards campaign organizers and CNU members visited 20 Congressional offices in late October, to discuss two current proposals in Congress that would offer funds for highway removal.
    In July, both houses of Congress took a momentous step toward recognizing and repairing the damage federal highways have inflicted upon urban communities. Congress has proposed not one, but two different federal highways-to-boulevards pilot programs , both of which include a novel provision to open...Read more