Transportation
The U.S. DOT's Newest Plan to Tackle Transportation Barriers
The Every Place Counts design challenge aims to reconnect communities isolated by infrastructure.
If transportation infrastructure is a nation’s connective tissue, then the U.S. has excelled at severing its own parts.
In the heyday of mid-century infrastructure expansion, federal, state, and local policymakers ran highways and interstates through low-income, minority communities in cities around the U.S. This displaced residents, sapped local economies, and isolated neighborhoods with permanent, concrete scars.