As money from a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill begins to siphon into state transportation departments, Colorado will be a model for how the country might begin to wean itself off a half-century of highway widenings. awalkerinLA reports
Photo: Michael Ciaglo/Bloomberg via Getty Images At the last meeting of the year of Colorado’s transportation commission, sitting in a bedroom in front of an array of ornately wrapped Christmas presents, chair Kathy Hall introduced the final motion as “the biggest thing this commission has ever been asked to do.
The vote comes at an extremely uneasy moment for transportation policy, with news this week that the Build Back Better Act, and all its climate mitigation provisions, might be delayed or gutted even more just as a whopper of an infrastructure bill gave states an unprecedented amount of money for roads. This week, the Federal Highway Administration announced that $52.5 billion will go to highway funding just in 2022, 20 percent more than states got this year.
In Colorado, this shift may also mean funds may be diverted from expanding interstates into transforming arterial roads. The extra-wide surface streets in cities and towns are, in some cases, just as dangerous, polluting, and dividing as highways, says Katz. “The same guidance that has been used to design interstates to move cars and trucks quickly are used for these main streets. They’re unsafe for people walking, not conducive for transit and biking, and often part of the high-injury network.
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