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Many Schools Located Next to Major Highways

20 August 2008 - 8:00am
University Of Cincinnati
New research from the University of Cincinnati shows that nearly a third of U.S. schools are located within a quarter-mile of major highways, posing a significant air pollution threat to students.
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Excessive Highway Building To Blame For Bridge Woes

5 August 2008 - 6:00am
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Official sources show that Minnesota had been long diverting bridge repair funds to build new highways.
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Americans Reduce Their Driving by 3.7% in May, Transportation Funds Plummet

29 July 2008 - 2:00pm
The Wall St. Journal
At a time when highway infrastructure is already facing challenges such as the rising costs of concrete and steel, a change in driving habits is causing a major reduction in available funds.
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Highway Funding: The Last Bastion of Socialism in America

24 July 2008 - 12:00pm
Streetsblog
Since 1956, federal, state and local governments have invested nine times more capital funding in highway subsidies than in transit.
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Study Says That Highways Don't Pay for Themselves

9 July 2008 - 1:00pm
la.streetsblog.org
How often does one hear that transit is somehow a less respectable form of transportation than driving because of the "massive subsidies" transit receives? Well, a new study by Texas DOT says that highways don't pay for themselves either.
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Dreaming of a Superhighway Across Maine

9 June 2008 - 5:00am
The Ellsworth American
Officials in Maine are considering a plan to build a cross-state superhighway.
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Robert Reich Stumps for Transit

7 June 2008 - 7:00am
Robert Reich's Blog
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich gives his two cents about the need to expand public transit.
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L.A. Called Home to Second Smallest Carbon Footprint

29 May 2008 - 10:00am
Los Angeles Times
New research from the Brookings Institution claims that Los Angeles has the second smallest carbon footprint of big American cities -- a finding that contains a few caveats.
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The Bronx Pushes to Revitalize the 'Highway to Nowhere'

28 May 2008 - 10:00am
Gotham Gazette
A remnant of Robert Moses' famous push to raze neighborhoods and build highways in their place, the Sheridan Expressway is ripe for revitalization. A local advocate believes that now "the stars are aligned" for it to happen.
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Oklahoma City Highway to Be Replaced with Park

22 May 2008 - 10:00am
USA Today
At one time, Oklahoma City is doing two things many cities have only hoped to: the city's getting rid of one of its aging inner-city highways and replacing it with a park.
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Michael Lewyn

Myth and Reality About European Sprawl

13 May 2008 - 7:07am

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.

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Comprehensive Tolling Idea Meet Criticism in D.C.

21 March 2008 - 8:00am
The Washington Post
A proposal to place tolls on many of the highways around Washington D.C. is being blasted by critics, who say planners should place more emphasis on providing better transit services than charging commuters left with few options.
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Samuel Staley

Are planners ready for the Drew Carey (not so free) freeway?

16 October 2007 - 5:43am

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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Greg Smithsimon

Highway Zoning?

25 June 2007 - 9:38am

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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