Un-Pave Paradise and Put Up a Lot of Parks
In the heat of five o’clock traffic, most of us hate freeways, those angry, crowded entities that were designed in the vain hope we would never feel angry or crowded. However, a growing trend in urban...
View ArticleWould You Pay 3.5 Cents a Mile for a New Interstate System?
This Wednesday the Transportation Planning Board for the Washington, D.C., area will consider a variety of ways to tamp down highway congestion. Perhaps the most controversial suggestion is to charge a...
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Mouse over each of the 10 targets to learn more. Photograph by Pete Starman.
View Article2 Lanes, 1 Life: The America Far From the Freeway
“The archaeologists of some future age will study [the freeway] … to understand who we were.” —David Brodsly, L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now...
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