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Restorative Justice Plan For Former Freeway Land to Go Before City Standing Committee
Pasadena Now June 30, 2025
The Restorative Justice Standing Committee will meet on Wednesday to review, discuss, and select elements of a proposed plan that could address historical harms caused by freeway construction in Pasadena, advancing the city’s $2 million federally-funded project.
The Big Deal Breaks Down
Places June 2025
Ten days after the November 2024 election, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went on television to claim a “decade of infrastructure” as the Democrats’ consolation prize.
New appeal aims to remove Kensington Expressway and rebuild the original Humboldt Parkway
WGRZ July 4, 2025
While a permanent injunction is preventing the plans for a $1.5 billion cap and tunnel over a 4,100-foot section of the Kensington Expressway from moving forward until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed, the legal fight over the 33 isn’t over.
National nonprofit says downtown Dayton’s U.S. 35 stretch ripe for removal
The Business Journals July 7, 2025
A national nonprofit has named a stretch of U.S. 35 in Dayton as ripe for removal.
Can Americans Just Stop Building New Highways?
Bloomberg July 8, 2025
“The Interstate Highway Act literally brought Americans closer together,” President Bill Clinton said in 1996, referencing the bill that launched the 47,000-mile federal highway network.
Big Beautiful Bill kills grant for Knoxville project to reconnect east side
Knoxville News Sentinel July 9. 2025
Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation is springing into action to line up local donors to pay for an ambitious plan to strengthen connections between the east side and the rest of city after a $42.7 million grant was cut by President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Community members urge abandonment of highway extension plan
Bethesda Magazine July 9, 2025
Dozens of community members packed the Montgomery County Council chambers in Rockville on Tuesday to encourage councilmembers to abandon a latent plan to develop a 5-mile highway extension stretching from Clarksburg to Montgomery Village.
Roadblocked: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Eliminates Most Federal Funding For Allston
StreetsBlog Mass July 10, 2025
Last week’s enactment of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” eliminated billions of dollars in unobligated funding for the federal Reconnecting Communities grant program – including all but $8 million of a $335 million grant for the Allston I-90 highway realignment in Boston.
Gateway Arch Park Foundation has a huge idea for downtown: Highway removal
St. Louis Magazine July 10, 2025
Yesterday, the Gateway Arch Park Foundation announced some big news: It has closed on the purchase of the Millennium Hotel.