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Highways Devastating the Amazon

The greatest threat to Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest is not just farming or logging, but the road construction that makes both possible, writes Stephanie Brault.
13 November 2009 - 10:00am
Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Taking to the Road? More Power to You

Two inventors explain devices that would allow energy to be harvested along highways and from the highways themselves.
27 July 2009 - 8:00am
The New York Times

Wetland-Clearing Highway Project on List for Texas Stimulus

A 14-mile road segment that would connect two highways in Texas is a contender for stimulus funding in the state. But it would also cause the removal of at least 23 acres of wetlands. Environmentalists are upset the proposal is being considered.
15 July 2009 - 8:00am
The Houston Chronicle

Highway Teardowns Benefitting Traffic Flow and City Life

The Infrastructurist offers four case studies of cities that have removed highways. The result: less congestion.
8 July 2009 - 8:00am
The Infrastructurist
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Majority of Stimulus Spent on Roads

States are spending the vast majority of federal stimulus money on building or repairing roads and highways, according to a new study.
1 July 2009 - 9:00am
Reuters

Should Fuel Taxes Pay For Alternative Transportation?

Planetizen has teamed up with National Journal, a weekly politics and policy magazine, to explore transportation issues. As part of National Journal's Transportation Experts blog, we've asked Planetizen Interchange bloggers and National Journal's Transportation Experts whether money from the Highway Trust Fund should be used for non-highway projects like bike lanes and pedestrian walkways.
4 May 2009 - 9:00am
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The Los Angeles Traffic Problem, From Above

Photos of LA from above showcase the city's traffic patterns.
2 May 2009 - 7:00am
GOOD Magazine

How the Road Construction Industry is Destroying Japan

How the "road tribes" — the impenetrable scrum of bureaucrats, politicians and industry that benefit from an ever-expanding program of road construction — are literally paving the road to national ruin in Japan.
25 April 2009 - 11:00am
Japan Times

New Study Warns Against Privatizing Roads

The U.S. PIRG Education Fund has released a study of privatized toll roads across the United States, and concludes that they pose 'a long-term threat to the public interest.'
6 April 2009 - 2:00pm
U.S. PIRG Education Fund
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Washington Not Stimulating New Growth Patterns

For the first time since the Carter administration, Washington is in the position of paying for seemingly everything. But how will the federal government's spending affect growth in California? Not in the way you might think, says Bill Fulton.
2 April 2009 - 8:00am
California Planning & Development Report

How States are Divvying Up the Transportation Money

This article provides a general breakdown of how state governments plan to use the first installment of transportation spending money from the stimulus. The leeway states have in how to spend has sparked debates among legislators.
5 March 2009 - 7:00am
The New York Times

Giving Highways New Life

The author of this article offers a few ideas on how to better use our 46,000 miles of highway. From the integration of rail lines to the development of electricity distribution grids, the interstate has more potential than it seems.
22 January 2009 - 9:00am
Metropolis Magazine

Trans-Texas Corridor Plans Dropped

Plans for a broad statewide highway project known as the Trans-Texas Corridor have been abandoned by state officials.
8 January 2009 - 5:00am
The Dallas Morning News
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Michael Lewyn

Fun with transportation statistics

Tue, 11/11/2008 - 08:04

 

A few days ago, I was looking at a regional planning document and saw something startling: an assertion that transit ridership in my region has been going down. Since transit ridership has been going up nationwide, I smelled a rat.

After digging around through a big pile of statistics, I realized that there are so many different ways of measuring transit ridership that one can easily prove either that ridership is going up or that ridership is going down. Some possible measurements include:

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Using Prison Technology to Avoid Roadkill

Colorado Department of Transportation has launched a pilot program that uses technology that detects wildlife in order to help drivers avoid hitting them.
2 October 2008 - 7:00am
Chicago Tribune

Many Schools Located Next to Major Highways

New research from the University of Cincinnati shows that nearly a third of U.S. schools are located within a quarter-mile of major highways, posing a significant air pollution threat to students.
20 August 2008 - 8:00am
University Of Cincinnati

Excessive Highway Building To Blame For Bridge Woes

Official sources show that Minnesota had been long diverting bridge repair funds to build new highways.
5 August 2008 - 6:00am
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Americans Reduce Their Driving by 3.7% in May, Transportation Funds Plummet

At a time when highway infrastructure is already facing challenges such as the rising costs of concrete and steel, a change in driving habits is causing a major reduction in available funds.
29 July 2008 - 2:00pm
The Wall St. Journal

Highway Funding: The Last Bastion of Socialism in America

Since 1956, federal, state and local governments have invested nine times more capital funding in highway subsidies than in transit.
24 July 2008 - 12:00pm
Streetsblog
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Study Says That Highways Don't Pay for Themselves

How often does one hear that transit is somehow a less respectable form of transportation than driving because of the "massive subsidies" transit receives? Well, a new study by Texas DOT says that highways don't pay for themselves either.
9 July 2008 - 1:00pm
la.streetsblog.org
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