Recent Streetsblog TEXAS posts about Highway Expansion

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Do Environmental Reviews for Road Projects Help the Environment?

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It’s been more than 40 years since the National Environmental Policy Act was enacted. In that time, America has built a lot of emissions-inducing, land-devouring highway infrastructure despite the environmental review process mandated by NEPA. It’s fair to ask: When it comes to transportation infrastructure, does environmental review make a difference for the environment? The $1.1 billion expansion of the [...]
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Two Highway Lanes Won’t Fix Baton Rouge’s Traffic Problem

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Louisiana’s prescription for traffic congestion in Baton Rouge is to widen a highway and generate more traffic. Image: Louisiana DOTD Everyone agrees there’s a traffic problem in Baton Rouge, but not everyone is sold on the state’s plan to address it. The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s solution, presented this week, is to add two lanes to Interstate 10 [...]
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Putting TIGER Spending in Perspective

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Federal spending on TIGER compared to the total cost of various U.S. highway projects. Image: Streetsblog The House’s current transportation spending bill calls for reducing the share of federal spending that goes to TIGER, a grant program for sustainable transportation projects in cities, from $500 to $100 million. The budget, meanwhile, holds highway funding steady. Indianapolis’s cultural [...]
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Is the Lord For or Against a Texas County Road Bond? Opinions Mixed

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Things are really getting heated in Montgomery County, Texas, just outside Houston, over a proposal to issue $350 million in bonds to maintain and expand roads. Like fire-and-brimstone heated. Earlier this week, at a county commissioners meeting, volunteer Mary Hammer Menzel referred to road bond opponents as “tools of satan” in her opening prayer, reports the Montgomery County Courier. Menzel apparently has [...]
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Cincinnati’s Highway Revolt on the Verge of Victory

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Ohio State Rep. Tom Brinkman, a Republican who believes in lower taxes, is taking a principled stance against a wasteful highway project. Photo: Wikipedia Could the end be near for the $1.4 billion Eastern Corridor highway project proposed for eastern Cincinnati? Language added to Ohio’s transportation budget, which is being debated right now, would specifically “prohibit [Ohio DOT] from [...]
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