• Lids, teardowns, and infrastructure burials

    There is an abundance of in-city highways in the US that need to be demolished, buried, or capped so that neighborhoods can be made whole again.
    This essay is written as a warning to city administrators and finance directors all over the world who are considering building highway projects within urban areas. Experts have erroneously led city officials to believe that these expensive capital projects will alleviate congestion and improve...Read more

  • Envisioning Albany, without the waterfront-blocking freeway

    It’s hard to imagine a highway that damages a city more, and serves a less noble purpose, than Interstate 787 in Albany, New York’s capital. This highway segment does not carry Interstate through traffic—it was built so state workers and legislators could quickly enter and exit the Empire State...Read more

  • The infrastructure bill’s promise for cities

    To federal government this week adopted a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill (the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ), which is going to pay for a lot of machines moving dirt over the next few years. To what extent will they make better cities? Streets, transit, and other infrastructure...Read more

  • A highway cap in El Paso: False road to equity?

    Editor’s note: As part of Public Square’s coverage of Freeways Without Futures 2021 , we explored briefly when it’s appropriate to cap a highway . We received this response from Sito Negron in El Paso, Texas, where the Texas Department of Transportation is planning a widening of I-10, working with...Read more