Fifty-Eight Hundred Friends of Allendale Strong

The Federal Department of Transportation is tasked with pursuing more than twenty separate “national goals,” many of which conflict with each other. That means you can make the argument that almost any project meets one of these goals, even if you’re destroying a neighborhood to save drivers 3.2 minutes of travel time, like in the case of Shreveport, Louisiana.

We need a return to the laser focus and careful ex*****on that made the Interstate Highway System possible. That starts with changing the funding system that incentivizes harmful projects that drain massive amounts of funding and fail to deliver returns.

Strong Towns chimes in on this waste of tax dollars.

This Billion Dollar Project Is Justified by Bureaucracy, Not Need | Strong Towns In Shreveport, Louisiana, a deeply controversial project aims to build a new highway directly through the city’s core.

100 years since the great fire in Allendale.

Allendale burned 100 years ago. A storm blew through in 1940. Then came interstate 20. Allendale, Shreveport's first neighborhood outside downtown, has faced significant challenges over the past century, including a devastating fire, a tornado, and the construction of major highways that reshaped its community and economy.