America’s Interstate Highway System cut through the hearts of many downtowns when it was built in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving a legacy of inequality and urban impoverishment. Today, a new generation ...
The state’s final report on its three-year, Greater Hartford Mobility Study lays out plans for a dramatic change in the area’s transportation system but it first acknowledges the sobering — and ...
In President Joe Biden's proposed American Jobs Plan, his administration is calling for $20 billion to be spent on a new program that would “reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments,” ...
When the national interstate system began in the 1950s, no one considered the need for the far north-central states. As the upper Midwest has grown, there seems to be a missing interstate, namely, an ...
Over the years, I have studied many of the roads that make up Broome County. It all began about four decades ago when a patron of the then-Binghamton Public Library asked me what was the meaning ...
While Erie's first superhighway was being built, the public was impatient for it to open. Portions of Interstate 90 in Erie County were basically finished in the fall of 1959 but the highway wasn't ...