Less driving is possible
Residents of several states and cities have driven fewer miles on average in recent years than they did two decades ago. This decline suggests that Americans’ high levels of driving are not inevitable.
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The cost of backlogged road repair in the U.S. is estimated at more than half a trillion dollars.
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True “Confessions”: Lessons on building dynamic systems from a recovering engineer
Building systems that are designed from the start to be flexible, adaptable and reliant on empowered people can be an effective strategy to build up not only strong towns, but sustainable ones as well.
The highways had to go somewhere. Fixing the deficit in our political imagination.
If we are ever going to address a problem as big as, for example, climate change, we need to relentlessly question the absurdity of the status quo, to go beyond considering ways to make our current systems and modes of development incrementally less bad or less unjust, and imagine how those systems can be transformed into something qualitatively better.
High gas prices are a symptom of our dependence on oil. It’s time to cure the disease.
There are better ways to respond to surging gas prices than creating new incentives for car use – like ending our unhealthy and environmentally disastrous car dependency altogether.
Electric vehicles are here. Now we need the infrastructure.
Frontier Group at 25: Highway Boondoggles
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Dutzik
Tony
Dutzik
Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Group
Horrox
James
Horrox
Policy Analyst, Frontier Group