National Links: Widening the Sidewalks for Density

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Links
Streets

Jeff Wood • August 23, 2019

Every day at The Overhead Wire we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]

Why You Should Oppose a Gas Tax Increase

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Carfree
Cars
Climate
Economics
Freeways
Infrastructure
Policy
Transportation

Andy Singer • April 9, 2019

There are many reasons to oppose Tim Walz’s proposed gas tax increase. When a DFL governor last tried to increase the gas tax in 2015, Charles Marohn of Strong Towns wrote two excellent pieces detailing all the ways that The Minnesota Department of Transportation’s road building policies are hurting Minnesota’s cities and towns, fueling suburbanization […]