How did highway construction damage cities? The interstate system — largely built between the 1950s and 1970s — helped move Americans in large numbers and at high speeds, but its creation required a ...

Funding Colorado highways, the maintenance of the existing highways and the building of new highways to satisfy the demands created by more people, and the funding of capital construction projects and ...

According to a new report by the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), “building new highways will do little to alleviate traffic congestion in the long run and likely will exacerbate already severe ...

One of the many devious designs of Robert Moses, Baltimore’s “Highway to Nowhere” has stood as a 1.4-mile gash through the western part of the city for decades. A trench of traffic, these six lanes ...

When Interstate 25 was constructed through Denver, highway engineers moved a river. It was the 1950s, and nothing was going to get in the way of building a national highway system. Colorado’s governor ...

Those tall walls along the side of the highway aren't there to prevent cars from crashing into your backyard. Here's what ...

Earlier this century, urban planner Robert Moses did what he thought necessary for New York City’s growth, including building highways that displaced homes and ripped apart neighborhoods. Now, as a ...