Freeways

Next American City takes a look at freeways and sees the end coming -- for some, anyway.

After speeding construction by using county toll revenues, a 23-mile long, 18-lane freeway has opened in Texas.

The Congress for the New Urbanism has released a list of the top ten urban freeways that need to be torn down.

State County and city officials revealed eight new options for dealing with Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct, a damaged double-decker inner city freeway.

A year after a new freeway was completed in Southern California, traffic data shows increased use. Officials plan to widen the freeway to handle the increased load.

Sydney Mayor Clover Moore has suggested that the road be demolished, and a recent report from planning experts indicates the plan would not bring the city's traffic to a halt.

With increasing congestion and freeways built out just about as far as they can go, transportation planners in the San Francisco Bay Area are considering plans to put on-ramp metering lights on many of the area's most congested stretches of freeway.