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Alternative transportation
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2 weeks agoCalifornia Must Stop Expanding Highways - Streetsblog San Francisco
California allocates transportation funding to highway expansion projects despite tailpipe pollution causing half of state greenhouse gas emissions, contradicting the need to prioritize sustainable travel alternatives.
California
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2 weeks agoStreetSmart 15: Homes Before Highways - Streetsblog California
Over 800 homes demolished in six years for highway projects in California, revealing how transportation investments reduce housing supply and destabilize communities while remaining overlooked in housing policy debates.
Social justice
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4 months agoDisplacement and Dollars Down the Drain: The Data Behind California's Highway Expansion Crisis - Streetsblog California
California's highway expansions displaced homes and businesses, increased congestion, and consumed billions while masking demolitions and generational harm until mandated disclosure revealed the impacts.
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5 months agoState Pauses Billion-Dollar Route 17 Expansion in Hudson Valley - Streetsblog New York City
The New York State Department of Transportation has quietly announced that it was pausing work on a controversial highway expansion in the Hudson Valley that locals opposed. Earlier this month, the agency posted, but did not distribute, a statement on its website announcing that the Route 17 widening project in the Catskills - long regarded as one of the biggest highway boondoggles in the state - had been put on ice.
New York Rangers
New York City
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5 months agoState DOT's Highway Habit Ignores Emissions Mandate: Report - Streetsblog New York City
New York DOT is expanding highways, avoiding emissions reviews, and ignoring equity requirements, undermining the state's 2020 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
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