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Sometimes it might seem as though we need to scrap it all and start over. But while much of America’s current infrastructure is environmentally threatening...
Aug 22, 2019 Blog Post
On July 1, Boston’s public transportation agency, the MBTA, instituted a 6% fare increase. While the hike had been approved back in March, two crippling...
Aug 21, 2019 Blog Post
Major road construction projects are usually met with warnings of “carmageddon” and nightmarish visions of suffocating bottlenecks. But while our gut instincts tell us that...
Aug 16, 2019 Blog Post
Boulder, Colorado is an environmentally conscious city with a problem: The city's lack of housing has contributed to most of its workforce living in surrounding,...
Aug 8, 2019 Report
We don’t just need more walkable cities, more efficient vehicles, zero-carbon fuels, or viable alternatives to the one-car-per-adult system. We need all of them. And...
Jul 19, 2019 Blog Post
In The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs argues that there are two kinds of people in the world: “foot people” and...
Jul 15, 2019 Blog Post
The evidence is clear. So why the disconnect between the climate change-fighting rhetoric of political leaders and their continued love for big highway widening projects?...
Jun 21, 2019 Blog Post
It seems straightforward that we shouldn’t build infrastructure that will make us miserable. But that’s just what many currently proposed highway projects will do, by...
Jun 18, 2019 Blog Post
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...
Jun 17, 2019 Report
Too often, infrastructure policy seems to be driven by short-term priorities – getting projects underway, creating jobs, or squeezing out another couple decimal points of...
May 15, 2019 Blog Post
