Due to massive public opposition to the highway expansion plan known as the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC), the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has pulled a classic maneuver to undercut the resistance: keep the project, but change the name.
“The Trans-Texas Corridor, as a single project concept, is not the choice of Texans. So we’ve decided to [...]

The US Department of Transportation has approved a $516 million loan to the state of Maryland for the construction of the Inter-County Connector (ICC) highway. The ICC is a planned 18-mile, 6-lane highway to connect the I-95 Corridor of the Future in the Washington, DC area to I-270. According to the DOT, there is currently [...]

A pair of articles on infrastructure expansion and resistance in Colombia and Tanzania:
• Afro-Colombians threatened by biodiesel expansion: Afro-Colombian campesinos are increasingly being forced off their land for President Alvaro Uribe’s plan to convert the rain forests into palm oil plantations for biodiesel. According to this BBC article on the issue, traditional land use (small-scale [...]

The Mexican government is making a renewed push to exploit and destroy the land and people of Chiapas as the reborn Plan Puebla Panama (PPP, now renamed the “Mesoamerica Initiative”) pushes forward in Chiapas:
• Mexican Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel has announced plans for oil drilling in Chiapas, with private companies invited to invest as early [...]

The Root Force Target Database is back online! Want to take action against infrastructure but don’t have a project to fight locally? This resource is for you!
The database currently contains information on companies involved in the expansion of I-69, I-10 and I-95, and we’re told that more information will be added in the coming weeks. There are [...]

Three activists accused of carrying out sabotage actions for Galician independence are being tried by the Spanish government: Maria Bagaria is accused of setting fire to trucks being used to build a hydroelectric power station and is facing 3 years in prison; Giana Gomes and Ugio Caamanho are accused of using explosives to destroy an [...]

The ATM of a Chase Bank in Bloomington, IN was smashed on October 28. This is the third action in Bloomington to target the bank for its financial relationship with Gohmann Asphalt Company, which is involved in building I-69. Gohmann has been a major focus of anti-I-69 protests in recent months.
I-69 is a Corridor of [...]

Protest Reportback: On October 23, Chicago residents picketed against I-69 at the meeting of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. According to the action report, “This annual convention brings together hundreds of major players in the infrastructure business, people who specialize in forcing overpriced megaprojects on unwilling communities. This year, a [...]

In an action specifically designed to attack the system through its infrastructure, saboteurs targeted the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway in Ontario on October 13, according to an anonymous communiqué posted at Infoshop.org:
“In an attempt to cause a shitload of economic damage to the infrastructure of the CP rail main-line, we cut down two telephone poles [...]

The federal government has cleared the state of South Carolina to move forward with plans to build I-73 from Hamlet, N.C., to the Grand Strand/Myrtle Beach area. The environmental review process took place in only 39 months, compared to the usual 50-60, indication the Federal Highway Administration’s ongoing commitment to rush the approval of trade-related [...]