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After Funding, Highway Projects Go Untracked

After the Big Dig, the most expensive highway projects are subject to more rules, but use of funds is largely up to the states, who may come back for more money pending planning and design issues that arise.
21 December 2011 - 6:00am
USA Today

The High Cost of Free Roads

In Wisconsin, taxpayers pay roughly $779 per household for roads and $50 for transit. But most drivers still believe that transit is subsidized and roads pay for themselves, writes Tanya Snyder.
13 December 2011 - 10:00am
Streetsblog Capitol Hill

"Rare Show of Bipartisanship" Behind Highway Overhaul Legislation

The two-year transportation Senate bill would mean improved infrastructure, jobs, and state-level flexibility. And as far as both parties are concerned, it's a winner.
12 November 2011 - 7:00am
NPR

The New Trend in Highways: Capping Them

Blair Kamin uses Columbus, Ohio's retail development on the Cap at Union Station as a success story. What can Chicago learn from this design strategy that at once addresses economic development and the enrichment of the cityscape?
28 October 2011 - 5:00am
Chicago Tribune

The End of the Great American Highway

The American highway is in shambles, and there is not enough money to fix it, reports Zach Rosenberg of Car and Driver Magazine.
6 July 2011 - 1:00pm
Car and Driver

City of the Future: Two Legs Good, Four Wheels Bad

Once dubbed the "lungs of the city," highways are becoming perhaps less essential. From Seattle to Seoul, pedestrianization is gaining traction on both the domestic and international fronts.
24 June 2011 - 12:00pm
The Architect's Newspaper
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China's Superhighway on Kenyan Soil

Three Chinese companies are building a 31-mile highway to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. It's a move locals see as an effort to gain favor with the Kenyan government.
23 June 2011 - 5:00am
NPR

Explaining Induced Traffic

Eric Jaffe at The Infrastructurist explains the non-intuitive reason why often removing freeways means less traffic.
7 June 2011 - 7:00am
The Infrastructurist
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Building Roads to Cure Congestion Is an Exercise in Futility

University of Toronto professors say that building more roads just encourages more driving. Building transit doesn't help reduce congestion either, though it still maximizes the value of the transportation system.
1 June 2011 - 1:00pm
Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Houston Roadway Would Fuel Growth, Harm Migratory Birds

Plans to build a parkway around Houston will help ease traffic and spur growth in the region, but it will also run right through a key stopover point for millions of migrating birds.
15 May 2011 - 11:00am
Next American City

Does the U.S. Need More Highways?

National Journal asks its panel of experts whether the U.S. needs more highways, and if they should or shouldn't be a major part of transportation funding in the near future.
4 May 2011 - 12:00pm
National Journal

When is a Freeway Not a Freeway?

When there is a toll, of course. But the Federal Highway Administration uses the word indiscriminately, confusing the matter, writes Peter Samuel of Toll Roads News.
28 March 2011 - 8:00am
TOLLROADSnews

More Urban Highways Seeing Demise

Cities across the country are beginning to realize the mistakes they made years ago dividing their downtowns with urban highways. The city of New Haven has decided to do something about it.
4 March 2011 - 8:00am
The Christian Science Monitor

Chinatowns: 3, Freeways: 0

In the 1960s and 70s, Chinatowns were threatened by highway development in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. None of the proposed highways was built, thanks to concerted efforts by the Chinese communities.
21 January 2011 - 9:00am
Price Tags

New Report Says Roads Don’t Pay For Themselves

A new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group PIRG's report estimates that road construction has cost the American public $600 billion since the highway system began.
4 January 2011 - 10:00am
Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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Animal Overpasses

Highways can be deadly for animals, especially when they cut directly through habitats. A recently completed design competition sought ideas for creating animal-safe bridges over highways.
16 December 2010 - 6:00am
The Wall Street Journal
Todd Litman

Highways And Labor Markets II

Thu, 12/09/2010 - 06:55
One accurate measurement can be more insightful than a thousand expert opinions.

In a recent blog titled, Livability and All That, highway expert Alan Pisarski argues that highway-oriented transport systems are necessary for efficient consumer and labor markets.

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A Traffic Engineer Questions His Profession

Charles Marohn is a traffic engineer. Despite years of training and millenia of precedents, Marohn now feels that the common practice of traffic engineering is creating bad and even unsafe streets.
23 November 2010 - 2:00pm
Strong Towns

Greening an Urban Highway

New York City presents three options for transforming the six-lane Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by covering it with vegetation and making streetscape improvements.
23 November 2010 - 9:00am
The Architect's Newspaper
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Michael Lewyn

Highways and Labor Markets

Tue, 11/16/2010 - 12:53

In a recent blog post,(1) highway expert Alan Pisarski suggests that highway-oriented sprawl development is somehow necessary for the development of modern labor markets.(2) Pisarski writes that regional job markets are jobs are more specialized today than they were in his youth, and labor markets are thus "of immense size because many [highly specialized] employers need a market of hundreds of thousands of potential workers to reach the ones they need. The Atlanta region of 26 counties is not a great economic engine because it is 26 charming adjacent hamlets, but rather because the market reach of employers, suppliers, customers and job seekers spreads over several million residents."

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