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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 opposite of just: Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change

Highways & infrastructure

The opposite of just: Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change

How, in the middle of a climate crisis, does it make sense to make driving artificially cheap by refusing to charge drivers the full cost it imposes on society? And how can subsidizing driving be considered “just” when it threatens the futures not only of people with far fewer resources around the world, but also future generations, who don’t have a say in the matter at all?

Infrastructure is coming! Let’s get it right.

Highways & infrastructure

Infrastructure is coming! Let’s get it right.

If America's infrastructure conversation can turn to the question of what projects are actually necessary to solve our most pressing challenges, then there is an opportunity to carry out a plan that will leave the country better off both now and in the long run. 

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Tony
Dutzik

Tony
Dutzik

Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Group