Deadly and sprawling Houston does not need this $7-billion widening and rebuilding highway project.

It's the first of nine installments! This edition focuses on North Carolina’s plan to complete the southern half of a loop highway around Raleigh. It's a boondoggle with epic environmental repercussions

Here's the thing with highway expansion projects: They're big. They're expensive. And they have limited benefit. Our friends at US PIRG present their annual report.

Caltrans has widened U.S. 101 seven times since 1996 and hasn't cured congestion. But it's not going to try a new approach.

16 lanes. A $1.6 billion price tag. More traffic. Less transit. Yep, it's a boondoggle.