freeways

  I am of the opinion, which is by no means universally held, that the Interstate Highway System, whose construction was begun in the 1950s, was good for America, or at least a net plus when it comes to travel between cities.  As I have written before, I am old enough to remember when the early parts of I-40 were built in...[read more]

I've gotten some pushback on my claim that adding two congestion-priced lanes to MoPac will increase capacity more than adding two free lanes. This is the Freeway Congestion Paradox: Chen and Varaiya, in their article entitled "The Freeway Congestion Paradox," have demonstrated that, once freeway vehicle density (measured in vehicles per...[read more]

England's A3 tunnel will cost $402 million per mile, making it the most expensive project of its kind in the United Kingdom. Photo by Tom O'Donoghue We recently wrote about Glasgow’s controversial and expensive road expansion—an elevated six-lane highway to complete Glasgow’s ring of motorways that will cost more than $200 million per...[read more]

I can across an interesting post in Gordon Price’s Price Tags‘ archives that looks at a decision Vancouver made in the 1960s, or rather chose NOT to make. There are few singular decisions made in any North American city that have had such a dramatic impact of the future of a city, especially when the decision ...[read more]