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Who Really Owns New Orleans? A History of Land, Race, and Power
Big Easy Magazine March 29, 2025
New Orleans’ history of land ownership is deeply intertwined with issues of race and power, marked by periods of displacement, resilience, and ongoing struggles for equity.
Charlotte’s West End to Reconnect with City Through Federally Funded
Hoodline March 29, 2025
The City of Charlotte is taking concrete steps to mend the fractured relationship between West End and the rest of the city with a federally funded initiative aimed at infrastructural healing and community reintegration.
Robert Moses and His Lasting Legacy
City Journal March 31, 2025
The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s book about New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, turned 50 in 2024.
Gastonia neighborhood equity, connection study in limbo amid federal cuts and uncertainty
WFAE April 1, 2025
Gastonia’s Project CHANGE study — aimed at reconnecting the historically Black Highland community to downtown Gastonia — is in limbo.
ODOT Wants To Start Building The I-5 Rose Quarter Project—With Only Enough Money for Half of It
Portland Mercury April 1, 2025
After nearly a decade of planning and frequent political and financial obstacles, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is closer than ever to breaking ground on its I-5 Rose Quarter project—at least, part of it.
Syracuse I-81 Viaduct Project underway to reach goals for 2025
Equipment World April 1, 2025
This year’s work on the $2.25 billion Syracuse, New York, viaduct project – the largest road construction project in the New York State Department of Transportation’s history – will include the completion of the project’s first contract, new on and off ramps and beginning work on a new roundabout.
New Network Sets Out to Reform State DOTs
Streetsblog California April 3, 2025
Last week, Clean RIDES Network, a coalition of advocacy groups aimed at reforming state departments of transportation, released Reducing Costs, Commutes, and Climate Pollution: State Solutions for Better Transportation, a new blueprint for helping states fix their emission problems.
What to know about plans to convert a Milwaukee freeway into a street
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 3, 2025
Plans to convert part of Wisconsin Highway 175/Stadium Freeway North into an at-grade boulevard continue to move forward.
New documentary reveals how U.S. highway system dismantled Black communities
WLRN April 4, 2025
It’s 1956, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower just signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act.
Ottawa cancels planned freeway expansion into People’s Park
Ottawa Citizen April 5, 2025
The City of Ottawa has canned a planned freeway development into People’s Park, a move celebrated by urban planners and advocates.
El Paso lawmakers push for deck plaza funding from Texas Legislature
El Paso Matters April 6, 2025
The proposed deck plaza that would cover Interstate 10 in Downtown El Paso could receive millions in state funding, as lawmakers from El Paso push to tuck dollars for the project into the final state budget that will likely pass in June.
North Adams’ Route 2 Study Looks at ‘Repair, Replace and Remove’
iBerkshires.com April 8, 2025
Nearly 70 residents attended a presentation on Saturday morning on how to stitch back together the asphalt desert created by the Central Artery project.
Rethinking highway expansion in the face of climate concerns
Environmental Health News April 8, 2025
As the U.S. grapples with climate change, activists are challenging the traditional expansion of highways, highlighting the environmental and community impacts.
Austin’s $1 B capped I-35 proposal reeling amid federal, economic shifts
MySA April 9, 2025
An expansive vision to cap Interstate 35 near downtown Austin — a highway dubbed a “scar” by city leaders — could come to a screeching halt as federal funding allocations remain in limbo and city leaders brace for financial deficits amid ongoing economic uncertainties.
Austin has only weeks to decide where to put parks over I-35
KUT.org April 9, 2025
Austin must decide within just a few weeks whether to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to installing support structures on Interstate 35, or give up the chance to build parks over the highway.
SF’s New Park on the Closed Great Highway Is Now Called Sunset Dunes
KQED April 10, 2025
San Francisco’s newest park along the Upper Great Highway will be called Sunset Dunes after city officials chose from a list of five finalists Wednesday afternoon — just days before the park officially opens on Saturday.
San Mateo Formally Opposes Freeway Project
Planetizen April 10, 2025
The San Mateo, California city council voted to oppose a proposed freeway expansion project that councilmembers say would “[take] parks away from children and homes away from senior citizens…to expand highways,” reports Roger Rudick for Streetsblog San Francisco.
New York State will not appeal Kensington Expressway ruling
WGRZ April 11, 2025
The New York State Department of Transportation will not appeal a court ruling that is preventing the Kensington Expressway project from moving forward.