• When freeways have no futures

    CNU releases is biennial report, Freeways Without Futures 2019, telling the tale of ten freeways in cities where the movement has spawned active campaigns for transformation.
    Freeway construction was a disaster for city neighborhoods in the 20th Century. Many neighborhoods were divided in two—their main streets demolished and businesses closed, disproportionately in minority communities. The African-American Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans is a good example, as the...Read more

  • Highway expansion will induce demand, opponents say

    A $500 million widening project for Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, would lead to 10 to 17 million additional vehicle miles per year, according to a report in City Observatory . The website posted a series of articles opposed to the I-5 expansion in Portland’s Rose Quarter—an area of the city...Read more

  • A chance for transformation

    A redesign for the obsolete 1956 Buffalo Skyway addresses multiple community goals: enhancing mobility, promoting economic development, creating jobs, and reimagining the possibilities of Buffalo’s waterfront.
    Note: This article was written for The Buffalo News in response to a redesign competition for the Buffalo Skyway, an elevated freeway through the city's waterfront. The Skyway was on CNU's 2014 Freeways Without Futures list and also a topic of discussion at CNU 22 in Buffalo that year, and now a...Read more

  • A city highway alternative for Brooklyn

    When transportation engineers make problematic city highway proposals, CNU members sometimes offer alternative design solutions that broaden the conversation—and that's the case with the BQE in Brooklyn.
    It was not Jane Jacobs who first successfully fought the powerful Robert Moses on a highway proposal that would have torn a neighborhood apart. It was the citizens of Brooklyn Heights, across from Lower Manhattan. A citizen-led campaign scuttled Moses’s 1950s plan to build the Brooklyn-Queens...Read more