The Unstoppable Appeal of Highway Expansion [bloomberg.com]
By David Zipper, Bloomberg CityLab, September 28, 2021 Twelve lanes of Interstate 35 slice through the heart of the city of Austin. But that doesn’t appear to be enough: The highway is often choked with truck and commuter traffic, which is only thickening as the regional population balloons . A recent study named Austin’s section of I-35 the worst bottleneck in Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation, known as TxDOT, says it knows what to do: Widen the freeway. The agency proposes...