• A vision for Syracuse, after the I-81 viaduct

    Syracuse and NYS Department of Transportation face difficult decisions with the replacement of the I-81 elevated highway through downtown, choices that will impact the city for generations to come. The highway, past due for reconstruction, will be replaced by something, starting as early as 2022...Read more

  • Four principles for a federal highways to boulevards program

    For many Americans, controlled-access highways are a regular part of their daily landscape. They take these high-speed roads for granted, with little consideration of how they were built, the damage they have caused, and the massive amount of money and subsidies that are needed to support them. But...Read more

  • Diverging diamond dystopia: Boston edition

    This article began as a would-be tweetstorm, until I realized there was too much to say. Jonathan Berk, director of Patronicity , tweeted out an image of this new intersection planned by MassDOT for Natick, a Boston suburb, and it was a shock. Sure, folks have built these monstrosities in Utah,...Read more

  • Buffalo needs a true boulevard to replace Skyway traffic

    Current NYSDOT proposals prioritize the high—speed movement of automobiles—the design should be improved to focus on safety and community.
    Do you have a few minutes to spare for the City of Buffalo? Two minutes, in fact. That’s all the additional travel time drivers will face if the NYS Department of Transportation designs a boulevard with a speed limit of 30 mph instead of 40 mph to replace the Buffalo Skyway. At the end of August,...Read more