It’s amazing how someone can look at a basic set of facts and come up with completely the wrong conclusion. Such is an article in The Atlantic blaming urban poverty on highways. “City planners,” says ...

Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.

In 1956, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the $25 billion program that launched the Interstate Highway System. The law, which encouraged highway construction across the ...

The editors explain the mechanisms used in concert with the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, including federal, state, and local housing legislation, that limited housing and economic ...

Over the last year, Buttigieg has crossed the country visiting cities where the Biden administration is funneling federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act dollars to deck over expressways and ...

At a glance, it is obvious that the eventual design of today’s Interstate 95 and Interstate 10 were settled as early as 1946, a decade before passage of the Federal Interstate Highway Act of 1956.

The moment the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was ... planners, and transportation ... The fact that numerous city officials stated that urban highways promised an opportunity to remove their ...

In truth, planners knew from the beginning that the interstates threatened communities of color living in urban areas. In 1958, for example, the Sagamore Conference — convened by the Highway ...

The Inflation Reduction Act, which allocates nearly $370 billion in spending and tax credits to fight climate change, includes $3 billion to support highway removal.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (DC News Now) — Traffic engineers in the Hub City are busy applying for federal transportation funds under the “Safe Streets” program. Municipal planners are designing ...