Highway Boondoggle: Golden State’s Desert Destruction
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California's $8-billion, 63-mile “High Desert Freeway" north of downtown Los Angeles would lead to more driving and more pollution, along with sprawling desert development.
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Wrongheaded High Desert Freeway Named a Top National Boondoggle
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Proponents have smeared a lot of lipstick on their $8 billion, 63-mile highway project, but it's still a pig
Highway Boondoggles 2019: Nine Projects That Should Never Happen
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Here's the thing with highway expansion projects: They're big. They're expensive. And they have limited benefit. Our friends at US PIRG present their annual report.
Inside the Push to Tear Down an Oakland Freeway
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Scrapping I-980 seems like a no-brainer, but the historical argument for getting rid of it assumes the freeway is a legacy of mid-century attempts to build barriers around white middle-class neighborhoods. That’s true of several major freeways, but the story of I-980 isn’t so clear cut.
New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes
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Research on California highways shows that adding highway lanes induces more travel; this tool shows how much, on which roads, where.
With the 710 Dead, What Should Alhambra’s Position Be on the 710?
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Mayor Jeff Maloney sounds interested in turning the current freeway stub into a park.