News Articles

02/28/2005, Bacon's Rebellion
The Shape of the Future
Business-As-Usual interests are calling for bigger, wider Interstates to improve interregional mobility. The schemes won't work because they don't create Balanced Communities.

The Interstate Highway System is a primary cause of dysfunctional human settlement patterns-–the scatteration of urban land uses and thus congestion. Read more...

08/05/2005, The Northeast Georgian
Highway bill to help fund Cornelia corridor widening
The new federal highway bill passed by Congress last week earmarks $2 million to upgrade Cornelia's commercial corridor from Cannon Bridge Road to Walnut Street.

Georgia Department of Transportation plans call for widening approximately 2.74 miles of state Highway 105 (more commonly known as Veterans Memorial Drive) to ease traffic congestion and improve safety in the area. Read more...

08/29/2005, New York Times Op-Eds
Destroying the National Parks
Most of us think of America's national parks as everlasting places, parts of the bedrock of how we know our own country. But they are shaped and protected by an underlying body of legislation, which is distilled into a basic policy document that governs their operation. Over time, that document has slowly evolved, but it has always stayed true to the fundamental principle of leaving the parks unimpaired for future generations. That has meant, in part, sacrificing some of the ways we might use the parks today in order to protect them for tomorrow. Read more...

09/02/2005, Savannah Morning News
Detour highway bill
CONGRESS ON Friday approved a $10 billion disaster relief bill for hurricane-stricken Gulf Coast. That is just a downpayment on what will be an epic recovery project for years to come. Washington is going to have re-prioritize its spending to deal with the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Read more...