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Here is what is being said about freeway fighting this week. If you come across any articles, feel free to share and please let me know if you have any questions.
Freeway Fighters news
Akron’s Innerbelt project at risk of losing $10 million in federal funds
Signal Akron March 8, 2025
A $10 million federal grant to help redevelop a decommissioned portion of Akron’s Innerbelt is at risk of being recalled.
Metro/Caltrans L.A. County Freeway Widening Accounted for Over 96 Percent of Recent Home Demolitions
LA Streetsblog March 10, 2025
A new legislatively mandated report is shedding light on California’s ongoing freeway expansion.
Why Buffalo’s Billion-Dollar Highway Project Is on Hold
Bloomberg March 11, 2025
Across the US, state departments of transportation are scrambling to determine whether they can proceed with projects funded by the Biden administration’s signature infrastructure bills.
Cross-Bronx Cap ‘Potentially Feasible’ — But Expensive: Report
Streetsblog NYC March 11, 2025
The city and state could “cap” the Cross-Bronx Expressway in parts of the borough torn apart by master builder Robert Moses decades ago — if officials can find “large amounts” of money to make it happen, according to a new report.
Urban Transportation Commission criticizes I-35 frontage road plan
Austin Monitor March 12, 2025
The Urban Transportation Commission on March 4 unanimously passed a resolution strenuously recommending against the Texas Department of Transportation’s plan to widen Interstate 35 frontage roads downtown.
Report on reconnecting communities divided by Cross Bronx Expressway released
Transportation Today March 13, 2025
A new report from the New York City Department of Transportation and the New York State Department of Transportation outlines how to fix the division created by the Cross Bronx Expressway.
Group proposes alternative idea to highway with ‘urban boulevards’ for I-71/75 corridor
WCPO March 13, 2025
A group wants to create “urban boulevards” to replace I-71/75 through Northern Kentucky neighborhoods and into Cincinnati.
USDOT Eliminates Environmental, Equity Considerations
Planetizen March 14, 2025
As part of the new administration’s ongoing effort to “rescind woke policies,” the Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced it is removing environmental and social considerations for federally funded infrastructure projects.
SF’s Great Highway is now closed to cars. Here’s what happens next
ABC7 News March 14, 2025
The controversial plan to turn San Francisco’s Great Highway into a great park is officially underway.
Highways Block Social Connection. A New Study Shows Just How Much.
Next City March 14, 2025
A new study confirms what urban residents and advocates have known for decades: that America’s urban highways are barriers to social connection.
Recent highway expansions in California led to nearly 600 relocations in LA County
LAist March 14, 2025
Nearly all of the people relocated because of highway expansion projects completed in California between 2018 and 2023 were based in Los Angeles County.