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Calling attention to the recent spate of news regarding massive highway widening projects around the United States.
Indiana is at different stages with multiple freeway widening projects in the Indianapolis area: the I-465/I-69 interchange and the I-65/I-70 interchange. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/11/111167-flyover-tour-indianapolis-big-highway-expansion-project
The Arizona Department of Transportation is expanding I-10 through multiple jurisdictions in Maricopa County, including Phoenix. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/11/111186-massive-widening-planned-interstate-10-maricopa-county
The New York State Department of Transportation is adding a lane to the Staten Island Expressway. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/10/111037-staten-island-expressway-gains-lane
Perhaps the most infamous example: a $7 billion plan by the Texas Department of Transportation to widen I-45 in a historically black neighborhood in Houston. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/09/110693-environmental-study-released-7-billion-houston-highway-project
There are a few examples of freeway widening plans encountering local opposition, like Metro's (L.A. County) plans to widen I-605. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/10/111008-not-so-fast-metro-board-hits-brakes-southern-california-highway-expansion-plans
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission rejected a plan by the Maryland Department of Transportation to widen parts of the Capital Beltway (the plan is not dead, though). https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/10/110978-key-planning-agency-rejects-maryland-highway-widening-proposal
Finally, a plan by the Ohio Department of Transportation wants to add lanes to Interstate 77 outside Akron is also encountering local resistance, but that plan is also far from dead. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/09/110711-local-opposition-ohio-dots-i-77-widening-plans-near-akron
Some of the politicians and agencies behind these plans claim to be climate warriors without being held accountable to their promises. Others are climate arsonists, who are not being held accountable to the consequences of these actions.
