Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Highway Expansion

Redwood City Interchange Could Get More Dangerous for Walking and Biking

By Andrew Boone | Jan 21, 2015 | 8 Comments

Redwood City has begun environmental review on a planned reconstruction of the Highway 101 interchange at Woodside Road, as well as two major intersections on either side of the highway — projects designed to move more cars. Some of the proposed designs would retain existing traffic ramps that are hazardous to people walking and bicycling, and Woodside […]

Court: Environmental Review for San Diego’s Highway-Happy Plan Inadequate

By Melanie Curry | Nov 25, 2014 | No Comments

The California Court of Appeals yesterday confirmed a lower court ruling that the environmental impact report (EIR) for San Diego’s long-range regional transportation plan was inadequate. The EIR, said the court, underplayed the impact of the emissions that would result from its highway-building, sprawl-inducing plan. SANDAG approved its regional transportation plan in October 2011. It […]

“Not a Freeway” — Re-Branding the Excesses of the $1.4B Presidio Parkway

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 11, 2014 | 47 Comments

When visitors land on the front page of the Presidio Parkway’s website, they see an animated pelican emerging from beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, gliding across green hills and blue skies. When the bird lands, you can “Meet Parker” with a click and learn all about the Presidio Parkway Pelican. The PR team for this […]

Study: Corrupt States Spend More on Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 6, 2014 | No Comments

A new academic study helps explain the enduring political popularity of expensive transportation boondoggles like Birmingham’s $4.7 billion Northern Beltline and Kentucky’s $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges. According to research published in the journal Public Administration Review, states with higher levels of public corruption spend more money on highways and construction. The study found highway and construction projects and police programs […]

Highway Safety Projects Ineligible for Highway Funds in San Mateo County

By Andrew Boone | Apr 11, 2014 | 6 Comments

San Mateo County’s Mid-Coast Multi-Modal Trail just barely made it into the list of Pedestrian and Bicycle Program projects approved for funding by the Transportation Authority (TA)’s Board of Directors last Thursday. Despite this step forward, building the trail will be difficult thanks in large part to restrictions on how TA funds can be spent, which […]

Don’t Widen 101: How SM County Could Move More People With Less Traffic

By Andrew Boone | Jan 3, 2014 | 2 Comments

San Mateo County is poised to spend more than a hundred million dollars on an expansion of Highway 101 while passing over more effective, less expensive options to improve people’s commutes. Even as total traffic volumes have remained flat over the past decade on Highway 101 in San Mateo County, the City/County Association of Governments […]

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