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The Highway Era Is Over. When Will Our Institutions Catch Up?

Streetsblog USA

The highway era is over. The construction of the Interstate Highway System is essentially complete.

Americans will continue to log lots of miles on highways, but for the most part, the job of building them is over. We’ve already connected the places worth connecting by highways.

The problem is that transportation agencies — especially state DOTs — haven’t caught up. In their training, organizational structure, and policies, most state DOTs are still oriented around building highway capacity in a neverending quest to eliminate car congestion. Times have changed, but they have no grand new purpose.

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