Living near brownfields, highways, and heavy traffic linked to high toxic metal levels in blood in Detroit study-- remediating polluted post-industrial sites in heavily populated areas crucial. #NICHDimpact #Highways #Toxic #Traffic #Brownfields #Detroit
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36034484

Extending a city highway that threatens cultural heritage and communities. I thought the fifties were over? Guess not. Thanks to "conservative" coalitions 🙄
#Berlin #carmagedon #highways #urbanplanning #2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/berlin-clubbers-and-green-protesters-unite-to-fight-motorway-plans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Why putting #solarpanels beside #highways is a no-brainer!
#California could generate enough #electricity to power 270,000 homes by putting solar panels in the empty land next to highway interchanges in just 3 Southern California counties.There is a lot of “dead” space between highways, which is currently not used for much of anything. It’s not a usable space for wildlife, either, due to the proximity of so many cars. These locations are often near #transmissionlines
https://electrek.co/2023/08/31/why-putting-solar-panels-beside-highways-is-a-no-brainer/

RT https://social.coop/@chrisod@fosstodon.org/110974345292284169: Trust me on this. You absolutely want to spend 10 minutes reading about this random pedestrian bridge in Minnesota.

https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge

#bridge #bridges #highways #civilenginerring #history #Minnesota

> Great work of non-fiction! We'd all be better served by reading some more 9th grader essays. Love the story. The best part was that I enjoyed it while skimming. Totally scannable for a massive research project. More PhD's should publish pieces like this!

Bulldozing roads through biodiversity.
NSW does it, but India does it better:

6 Lane Highway pushing though the web of life, drone view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTLwtr0ssvg

Raipur Visakhapatnam Expressway Update | Expressways in India | Papa Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYZixOLy6Y0
#roads #highways #BellingeLogging #Roads #GlenifferRoad #forest #habitat #wildlife #biodiversity #extinction makers

One rural #Texas town rejects an ordinance to criminalize #driving on #highways through the town heading towards or coming from an out of state #abortion, but many of these same towns are passing them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/

#Highways are the next #antiabortion target. One #Texas town is resisting.

A new #ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions & under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an #abortion

#AbortionRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/

#Texas #Antiabortion advocates behind the measure are targeting regions along interstates, areas w #airports #w goal of blocking off main arteries out of Texas keeping #pregnant #women hemmed within confines of antiabortion state. These provisions have already passed in 2 counties, 2 cities, creating #legal risk for those traveling on major #highways including Interstate 20 & Route 84, which head toward NM where abortion remains legal https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/ #WomensHealth #WomensRights #health

India’s Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has launched the New Car Assessment Program Bharat NCAP on August 22.

#NitinGadkari #BharatNCAP #NewCar #RoadTransport #Highways

https://www.ganganews.com/india/india-launches-new-car-assessment-program/

Urban Highways Cost Billions in Lost Home Value, Property Taxes #cars #urbanism #highways

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-16/the-cost-of-highway-construction-in-atlanta-washington-d-c

New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways

"For decades, Strongsville has pushed for an interchange at Interstate 71 and Brunswick’s Boston Road, while Brunswick pushed back in an effort to preserve its growing neighborhood"

"State Representative Tom Patton overrode the system, ignored local desires, and dictated the interchange be completed through the law."

#ohio #highways

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/10/new-ohio-law-promises-to-tear-down-neighborhoods-for-highways

Development where there is no habitat left for biodiversity
There are fears koalas are struggling to find appropriate shelter amid increasing development. Human activity has destroyed their permanent home.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-10/koala-in-kitchen-woronora-heights-south-sydney-wildlife-rescue-/102713166
#koalas out of #habitat #highways #Sydney #extinction makers

See also: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/01/opinion/are-we-there-yet-newsletter-transit-20th-century-road-building/ #roads #highways #transportation #America

Nice to see #Staffordshire #Highways had finally got round to repainting the SLOW road marking outside our house. This was reported back in February after one of our cats got run over, but thankfully only lost one of his 9 lives - he got away with bruising, nothing broken. 😻

Why Are the #Feds Trying To Pave Over Yet Another #Black #Neighborhood?

https://www.theroot.com/why-are-the-feds-trying-to-pave-over-yet-another-black-1850682961
Can we just leave the tragic legacy left by the building of #highways in the 20th Century?
#RedLining

The thought that anyone things this is a good idea is deeply disturbing to me.

We are the largest metro in the nation without rail #transit or #PassengerRail but apparently folks think we need more #highways…
https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/transportation/2023/07/14/intel-growth-prompts-look-at-licking-county-johnstown-bypass/70414569007/

_The Evening Post_, 13 July 1923:
ONE BOARD, NOT TWO
… roads are in a bad condition, and appear to be getting worse instead of better.… the chief purpose of the Main Highways Board is to improve the roads now. The present system of road formation and maintenance does not meet the new requirements arising from the great growth of motor traffic.… disputes as to the responsibility of local authorities.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230713.2.33
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Roads #Highways #Governance

#OilRefineries release lots of water pollution near communities of color, data show

by Rebecca Hersher, January 26, 20234:38 PM ET

Most of the pollution is happening near communities of color

"In the #USA, people with less power have consistently been exposed to more pollution, whether it's excess #AirPollution from #highways and #factories, drinking water #contamination, exposure to #lead paint or polluted #lakes and #rivers.

"That trend shows up clearly in the new report, which finds that the majority of the worst-#polluting refineries are located near communities that have lower-than-average #income and a higher-than-average proportion of #NonWhite residents.

"A further NPR analysis of the data finds even more stark inequities: some types of water pollution are concentrated overwhelmingly in communities where people of color live.

"For example, about three-quarters of the nitrogen, selenium and dissolved solid #pollution from #oil refineries came from facilities that are surrounded by neighborhoods that are home to people of color.

"The #EPA declined to comment on the report or on NPR's findings."

#BigOil #Exxon #AHexOnExxon #EnvironmentalRacism #EPAFail #WaterIsLife #PeopleOfColor

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151464514/oil-refineries-release-lots-of-water-pollution-near-communities-of-color-data-sh

Ssshhhh... I have a secret, or perhaps they do.🤫🤐

"A copy of any email, text, or written correspondence sent to or from the Minister and their staff..."

#FOI #AccessToInformation #BCPoli #Transportation #Rail #Highways #ICF #IslandCorridor #AtmosphericRiver #CameronLakeFire #BCWildfire

Commuters battle horrific congestion on 26 lane highway. More lanes?
“You just can’t build your way out of congestion. It’s one of those things — the more you build, the more people come and fill those roads up...Authorities should be careful that development and road upgrades don’t further embed reliance on private cars.”
“You can’t keep building roads forever. It needs to be a multi-modal approach of public transport, roads and active transport as a whole system solution.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-03/why-keep-spending-billions-on-motorways-m1-commute/102293384
#roads #highways #upgrades #downgrade #sprawl #commuters #WastedLifeTime #cars #crashes #PrivateVehicles #NSW #Bellingen #So50s #congestion #climatechange