Sunday Video: How Highways Wrecked American Cities
Vox charts more than a half-century of highway building across America in under five minutes. The video dives into how American road building was...
Introducing The Bainbridge-Bellevue Freeway: Bridge To Somewhere
With the state government so gungho about new highway construction we might as well build more of them whether they make sense or not....
A Once In Lifetime Opportunity: Walking, Biking, And Dancing On SR-520
It's not often that a highway department invites people to walk, bike, and dance freely on their roads, but this weekend is your rare opportunity. The Washington...
Are Washington State’s Highway Expansion Plans A Good Investment?
This article originally appeared as a special piece on Strong Towns, which is in the midst of #NoNewRoads week and dedicated Thursday to Washington...
FAST Act Makes Slow Progress
The sausage has been made and the federal transportation bill has emerged from the conference committee with a treacly new name: Fixing America’s Surface...
Lid The I-5 Trench Downtown And Consider Building Housing Too
Capitol Hill Seattle Blog recently covered architect Christopher Patano's plan to put a "lid" on I-5 through a two-mile segment, alongside First Hill and...
Highway Mission Creep
Last week, I wrote about the progress of the highway funding bill through Congress. A few politicians—Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Rick Santorum—don't want...
Mixed Signals on the American Superhighway: Devolve, Evolve, or Prod Ahead?
Congress finally did something! It appears poised to pass a "six-year" transportation bill. In truth, the bill contains money for only three years and...