Tag: highway expansion

Roadbuilding

Highway expansion and local traffic: oil and water?

The highway, that venerable American institution–that core value, that industry and community building institution–is under assault again. Better Institutions, a blog about transportation and urban planning policy, joins a chorus of blogs addressing what it calls, “The self-defeating nature of highway construction and expansion,” and specifically, “Lost in the discussions of induced demand (focused on […]

July 12, 2013

Roadbuilding

“No highway expansion,” says Wisconsin lobby

Here’s a plea to stop building new highway lane miles in Wisconsin. Hmm. The new communications era (NCE) allows all sorts of people and groups to take their case directly to the public, sometimes in a clumsy, amateurish way, but often, as in this case, with some pretty convincing work. But the NCE (I just […]

April 10, 2013

Construction Equipment

Final Word

Staying focused By Kirk Landers America’s national non-debate over highway policy got a new infusion of fantasy in April. The first and most disillusioning one came from the Obama administration. It was a too-familiar chorus on the fantastic potential for public-private funding ventures to solve our transportation crisis. This, of course, is a red herring […]

June 7, 2010