City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by
Megan Kimble
Published 2 Apr 2024
“It would be good to start flexing our muscles collectively and this is the perfect opportunity to do so.” Since he started Rethink35, Adam had been trying to connect with people fighting highway expansions across the country. He wasn’t the only one. Ben Crowther had taken over Congress for the New Urbanism’s Highways to Boulevards program in 2018. “Every time I talked to a group somewhere, they’d say, who else is out there like us?” he says. “Eventually I just started connecting them one-on-one. After each of those conversations, they’d come back to me and say, you know, it’d be great if we could just connect with everyone out there.”
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GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Portland’s Harbor Drive: “Model Cities: Portland—Harbor Drive,” Congress for the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/highways-boulevards/model-cities/portland. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Milwaukee’s mayor, John Norquist: “Model Cities: Milwaukee—Park East Freeway,” Congress for the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/highways-boulevards/model-cities/milwaukee. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT active campaigns: “Highways to Boulevards Fact Sheet,” Congress for the New Urbanism, www.cnu.org/our-projects/highways-boulevards. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT eighteen North American cities: Ibid. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT In 1998, a global study: Phil Goodwin et al., “Evidence on the Effects of Road Capacity Reduction on Traffic Levels,” Journal of Transportation Engineering and Control, 1998, 348–54.