Decades of research shows that expanding highways increases travel times. Some cities are reducing their highways in response.
Why Do We Keep Widening Highways If It Doesn’t Reduce Traffic?
Decades of research shows that expanding highways, despite its promise to reduce congestion, actually increases travel times.
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January 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Decades of research shows that expanding highways increases travel times. Some cities are reducing their highways in response.
theres national highways in india rougher than this
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
theres national highways in india rougher than this
More Bike Lanes and less Highways, please!
October 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
More Bike Lanes and less Highways, please!
The time I pretended to be a photographer for Arizona Highways
#GrandCanyon #photography
Jan 2023 photo.
#GrandCanyon #photography
Jan 2023 photo.
December 11, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The time I pretended to be a photographer for Arizona Highways
#GrandCanyon #photography
Jan 2023 photo.
#GrandCanyon #photography
Jan 2023 photo.
An Indigenous-made children’s TV show using human puppets to teach youth the Diné language recently earned two regional Emmys in California. After just a single season that included six episodes and a Christmas special, “Navajo Highways” had a flawless evening in late June.
‘Navajo Highways’ children’s TV show wins 2 regional Emmys, flawless evening in CA
“Navajo Highways” was nominated twice. The educational program streaming on First Nations Experience won a trophy for informational-instructional content short or long form — another for best set desi...
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July 10, 2026 at 12:03 AM
An Indigenous-made children’s TV show using human puppets to teach youth the Diné language recently earned two regional Emmys in California. After just a single season that included six episodes and a Christmas special, “Navajo Highways” had a flawless evening in late June.
the fences are possum highways
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the fences are possum highways
(the last time this happened was when the interstate highways, having completely flattened virtually every Black neighborhood in the sixties, started encroaching into white people areas)
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I remain deeply fascinated by this, because I guarantee that other issues have come up that have impacted him, personally, as much (if not more) than a data center.
It's like someone turned on the subtitles for policy implications--but only for data centers.
Just data centers. Nothing else.
It's like someone turned on the subtitles for policy implications--but only for data centers.
Just data centers. Nothing else.
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
September 21, 2026 at 4:24 AM
(the last time this happened was when the interstate highways, having completely flattened virtually every Black neighborhood in the sixties, started encroaching into white people areas)
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Zoning is working exactly as intended, consolidating poor people next to highways and pollution
Interesting national level study of redlining and cumulatibe environmental burden: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Historical Redlining and Cumulative Environmental Impacts across the United States
Environmental regulation of single pollutants likely underprotects communities disproportionately burdened by multiple, overlapping environmental hazards. We investigate whether historically redlined ...
pubs.acs.org
March 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Zoning is working exactly as intended, consolidating poor people next to highways and pollution
I don’t believe the U.S. military should be bombing American highways.
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I don’t believe the U.S. military should be bombing American highways.
make sense, Roger Rabbit is a movie about redlining and destroying minority communities to run highways through them
July 17, 2026 at 1:32 AM
make sense, Roger Rabbit is a movie about redlining and destroying minority communities to run highways through them
UPDATE: Republican state Rep. rusty grills writes @govbilllee asking him to let 🧑🌾 farmers use “DYED DIESEL” (aka untaxed) on highways, which is illegal, to ease the pain of Trump’s pointless war
IRS considers this tax evasion, because it means using highways without paying the taxes to upkeep them
IRS considers this tax evasion, because it means using highways without paying the taxes to upkeep them
September 25, 2026 at 7:24 PM
UPDATE: Republican state Rep. rusty grills writes @govbilllee asking him to let 🧑🌾 farmers use “DYED DIESEL” (aka untaxed) on highways, which is illegal, to ease the pain of Trump’s pointless war
IRS considers this tax evasion, because it means using highways without paying the taxes to upkeep them
IRS considers this tax evasion, because it means using highways without paying the taxes to upkeep them
It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
August 2, 2026 at 8:23 AM
It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
Minnesota officials are encouraging peaceful protest, and remind people to not walk on highways, throw objects, use illegal weapons, or assault anyone.
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Minnesota officials are encouraging peaceful protest, and remind people to not walk on highways, throw objects, use illegal weapons, or assault anyone.
By that logic, highways don’t work because the government pays for roads.
December 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
By that logic, highways don’t work because the government pays for roads.
It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.
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Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?
Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers
Both highways & transit are way too expensive to build in the U.S. (a subject for another post) but only transit gets torn apart for cost overruns & is thus deemed unworthy of getting built. Very few say “don’t build highways because they cost too much.” The highways just get built.
December 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Both highways & transit are way too expensive to build in the U.S. (a subject for another post) but only transit gets torn apart for cost overruns & is thus deemed unworthy of getting built. Very few say “don’t build highways because they cost too much.” The highways just get built.
Tehran’s main highways are fully blocked by protesters.
January 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Tehran’s main highways are fully blocked by protesters.
If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
German Highways 😳
February 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
German Highways 😳
Idiot. The Russians tried to establish an airhead outside Kyiv, and were defeated at the battle of Antonov Airport. Then they rolled tank columns down both sides of the Dnieper—using highways!—and were beaten back.
August 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Idiot. The Russians tried to establish an airhead outside Kyiv, and were defeated at the battle of Antonov Airport. Then they rolled tank columns down both sides of the Dnieper—using highways!—and were beaten back.
waymo: doesn't work in the rain, on the highways, or during civil unrest
June 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
waymo: doesn't work in the rain, on the highways, or during civil unrest
Be a quaint cobblestone street in a world full of crowded highways.
February 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Be a quaint cobblestone street in a world full of crowded highways.
they keep emphasizing that these are on "known narcotrafficking routes" and like, those are just route-routes. there are not special ocean highways for drugs.
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
they keep emphasizing that these are on "known narcotrafficking routes" and like, those are just route-routes. there are not special ocean highways for drugs.
The highways are terrible today in the north but snow dog says it's the best weather day ever.
January 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The highways are terrible today in the north but snow dog says it's the best weather day ever.