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Highway Boondoggles

Highways & infrastructure

Highway Boondoggles

Year after year, state and local governments propose billions of dollars’ worth of new and expanded highways that often do little to reduce congestion or address real transportation challenges, while diverting scarce funding from infrastructure repairs and key transportation priorities.

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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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The highways had to go somewhere. Fixing the deficit in our political imagination.

Highways & infrastructure

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.

Frontier Group at 25: Transportation for a new generation

Biking, walking & transit

Frontier Group at 25: Transportation for a new generation

Acknowledging that vehicle travel is not destined to continue growing rapidly forever – and, more audaciously, suggesting that a new generation of Americans might prefer less car-dominated lives – can drive policymakers and the public to have a different kind of conversation about our transportation future. 

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Tony
Dutzik

Tony
Dutzik

Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Group