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Oklahoma City’s Highway Teardown

May 15, 2008 – 6:01 pm

USA Today recently highlighted another victory in the burgeoning national movement to tear down or relocate urban highways and create vibrant neighborhoods in their place:
Oklahoma has a radical solution for repairing the state’s busiest highway.
Tear it down. Build a park.
The aging Crosstown Expressway — an elevated 4.5-mile stretch of Interstate 40 — will be demolished [...]

By Steven Higashide | Comments (3)

Booker as City Revitalizer

May 8, 2008 – 5:02 pm

Newark officials have issued a Request for Expressions of Interest in the Broad Street Station area.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has identified the revitalization of the Broad Street Station District as a top priority for the City, and has released a detailed concept plan, dubbed the “Living Downtown,” for approximately 50 acres surrounding the Broad Street [...]

By Zoe Baldwin | Also posted in New Jersey, Newark, Transit-Oriented Development | Comments (2)

We’d Be More Thankful If…

November 23, 2007 – 11:00 am

Yesterday we discussed the many policy developments we’re thankful for. Today, we’re stuffed with turkey (and tofurkey) and can barely move, which has given us plenty of time to consider how far the region has to go towards a balanced transportation network. We are definitely still thankful, but we’d be more thankful if…
Congestion pricing opponents [...]

By Tri-State Transportation Campaign | Comments (1)

What We’re Thankful For

November 22, 2007 – 11:15 am

It’s astonishing to look back at this year in transportation advocacy and realize just how much we have to be thankful for:
Congestion pricing is on the table. Around this time last year, the Tri-State Campaign released a poll which found that 73% of New Yorkers believed that congestion pricing would be effective in reducing traffic [...]

By Tri-State Transportation Campaign | Comments (1)