Highways
Many Schools Located Next to Major Highways
Excessive Highway Building To Blame For Bridge Woes
Americans Reduce Their Driving by 3.7% in May, Transportation Funds Plummet
Highway Funding: The Last Bastion of Socialism in America
Study Says That Highways Don't Pay for Themselves
Dreaming of a Superhighway Across Maine
Robert Reich Stumps for Transit
L.A. Called Home to Second Smallest Carbon Footprint
The Bronx Pushes to Revitalize the 'Highway to Nowhere'
Oklahoma City Highway to Be Replaced with Park

Myth and Reality About European Sprawl
Some commentators argue that sprawl is an inevitable result of affluence, based on European development patterns. These pundits tell a simple story: European urban cores are losing population and becoming more automobile-dependent - just like American cities. So if Europe can’t beat sprawl, neither can America.
Comprehensive Tolling Idea Meet Criticism in D.C.

Are planners ready for the Drew Carey (not so free) freeway?
Technology creates new challenges and opportunities, and this came home to me a couple of weeks ago when I was previewing a rough cut of Gridlock: Hell on Wheels, a video on traffic congestion released by Reason Foundation today. In the video, Comedian Drew Carey makes the following off-the-cuff comment on a morning drive-time radio show: “I would love to own a freeway in LA.”
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Highway Zoning?
The Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others recalls that famous question about governments who spy on their citizens: Who will watch the watchers? (Answer: Alberto Gonzalez.) A similar, if less cloak-and-dagger question applies to planning: Who will zone the zoners? While governments use zoning to keep polluting uses away from homes, what if the biggest polluter in a city is a government use?
In most cities today, the most common polluting use is exempt from zoning: highways.
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