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Highway Boondoggles 2023: The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly in … Gorham

Here's a self-defeating new highway that will merely exacerbate suburban sprawl — reinforcing the very conditions that are causing the traffic problems in the first place!

November 27, 2023
Streetsblog USAHighway Boondoggles

Highway Boondoggles 2023: Pandering in the Panhandle

How bad is this boondoggle? Supporters are trying to sell it as if it includes a fancy deck plaza — which it does not.

November 24, 2023
Streetsblog USAFederal Funding

Highway Boondoggles 2023: This Year’s Poster Children for Bad Projects

November 10, 2023
Streetsblog USAFreeway Fighters

Memorial Day Op-Ed Special: To Halt Wasteful Highways, America Needs a ‘Road Review’

May 29, 2023
Streetsblog USAChildren

A Teen Activist’s Message to Transportation Leaders That Everyone Needs To Hear

May 7, 2023
Streetsblog USAClimate Change

Rest In Pieces, ‘Fix-it-First’: Biden Caves to GOP on Highway Expansions

March 7, 2023
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Locals Don’t Love the City’s Long-Awaited Re-Widening of Crumbling BQE

December 14, 2022
Streetsblog USABoondoggles

Highway Boondoggles Part V: Duluth’s ‘Can of Worms’

September 20, 2022
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Highway Boondoggles, Part IV: Erie’s ‘Mistake by the Lake’

September 19, 2022
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