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Decision Time for Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway
Toronto is facing a critical decision about the aging elevated Gardiner East Expressway. Will Canada's largest city go ahead with the plan to replace the one-mile-long concrete relic with a surface boulevard and walkable development? Or will it cling to yesterday's infrastructure?
June 3, 2015
You Can Now Bring Street Transformations to Life With Google Street View
If you ever want to show someone that it's possible to change streets and cities for the better, Google Street View can now help you do it.
April 25, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: One More Freeway Without a Future
So, Bertha is stuck digging an enormous highway tunnel underneath Seattle. Jeff Wood and I ask the essential question: Does Seattle really need to spend $2.8 billion on a new traffic sewer, when traffic on the Alaskan Way Viaduct has been plummeting?
February 26, 2014
Tear Down These 10 Freeways! (And Then Tear Down Some More)
Freeway teardowns are no longer as rare as an earthquake during the World Series.
February 13, 2014
A Highway Teardown Appears Likely, In an Unlikely Place
As the nation prepares for the expansion of the Panama Canal and all port cities go crazy deepening and widening everything in sight, the second biggest biggest port in the country is doing something unexpected: planning a highway teardown.
November 22, 2013