• 15 in-city highways that need transformation

    Highway removal offers a path to community revitalization and greater economic development, according to Freeways Without Futures 2021, released June 1.
    A new national report by the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) urges the wholesale transformation of 15 of America's worst in-city highways to reknit communities disrupted by highway construction decades ago—and generate economic opportunity. The highways featured in this report for too long have...Read more

  • Syracuse, on White House radar, should oppose highway designation for I-81 teardown

    The replacement for Interstate 81 in the heart of Syracuse should be designed and built on the scale of a city street, giving the city an economic shot in the arm.
    An Interstate 81 that no longer goes through the heart of Syracuse, New York—instead bypassing the city on the current I-481—could be a game-changer that benefits the entire region. Accompanied by good roadway design, facilitated by key political choices, that move has the potential to make the...Read more

  • 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