It’s difficult to visualize the damage that downtown freeways have caused our cities. For many, these highways have always been there, providing economic development and efficient travel into cities from the suburbs. Their role as a cornerstone of racial segregation, and their destruction of municipal budgets and the urban fabric has left our collective memory. […]
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Letter to the Task Force on Climate Change. 1000 Friends has been closely monitoring the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change to make sure that ambitious and equitable recommendations on land use and transportation are included in the final report. Back in March, we were asked to give a presentation before the task force on […]
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Transportation and Racial Justice – Interview with Dr. Kirk Harris The Coalition for More Responsible Transportation, of which 1000 Friends is a member, held an interview with Dr. Kirk Harris about the brief history of racism in the transportation sector and the current impacts of our transportation system on racial justice in Wisconsin. Watch the […]
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Roads themselves are often overlooked in our urban land use pattern, even though streets and sidewalks can make up almost 80% of the public space in cities. In fact, in downtown Milwaukee, nearly 40% of the total land is devoted to road infrastructure. Most of these streets are necessary to create a complete transportation network. […]
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Transportation policy analyst Gregg May participated in a video blog focusing on the destructive potential of the I-94 East-West expansion in Milwaukee
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The Coalition for More Responsible Transportation co-hosted a webinar on how highway expansions are hindering multi-modal transportation across Wisconsin. Hear from Beth Osborne, director of Transportation for America, about how the billions of dollars spent on massive highway mega-projects have left the current transportation fund insolvent and failed to solve congestion. Milwaukee environmental attorney Dennis Grzezinski, and Eau Claire City […]
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