Masked protesters invaded an I-69 Project Office in Bloomington on June 11, reportedly chalking both the inside and outside of the office and shattering the glass pane of an entry door. Roadblock Earth First! responded to the incident by saying, “We’d like to thank these anonymous folks who threw down against I-69 from the bottom [...]

• I-10: Commissioners in Washington County, FL have voted not to endorse the construction of a new toll road connecting I-10 in Florida with Montgomery, AL. Local residents had turned out in large numbers to oppose the plan. The county’s decision is non-binding, and plans for the road are still being considered. • I-15: The [...]

Canada recently announced that it has selected a location for a new Detroit-Windsor border bridge. The US site will not be selected until an Environmental Review is complete. Currently, the only crossing between Detroit, MI and Windsor, Ontario, is the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, which does not allow hazardous cargo. The new bridge will be [...]

Solidarity actions continue in opposition to the construction of the I-69 NAFTA Superhighway through Indiana. On June 3, Potomac Earth First! and others held a protest outside the offices of design and engineering company Michael Baker Jr. Inc. in Fredrick, MD. On June 5, an anti-I69 banner was dropped across an I-64 overpass in Louisville, [...]

The road variously known as I-69, the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) and the NAFTA Superhighway will be built using existing roads as much as possible, with the construction of new roads and the seizure of private land only a last resort the I-69/TTC Project Office has announced. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) said that the [...]

The state of Arizona has received two federal grants for Corridors of the Future-related construction projects. The first is $1.2 million to widen I-10 in Maricopa County, between Sarival Avenue and Loop 101. The second is $1.8 million to construct a new bridge across the Colorado River, to provide an alternative to the Hoover Dam [...]

In the first two weeks of June, the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held special hearings to examine the needs of the country’s surface transportations system. The committee’s investigations will be used to inform the new federal highway funding law due to be drafted in 2009. “Many of the nation’s surface transportation facilities are [...]

The news has been buzzing recently with photos of a previously “uncontacted” indigenous group in the Amazon forest near the Brazilian-Peruvian border — that is, a self-sustaining indigenous community that exists without contact with the industrial world. Loggers, ranchers and oil companies have a history of denying that such groups exist, in order to avoid [...]

The U.S. Department of Transportation is requesting proposals for ways to relieve traffic congestion at the Canadian and Mexican borders, saying that this congestion is “stifling commerce.” Transportation Secretary Mary Peters noted that the value of freight shipments between the three US, Canada and Mexico increases 8 percent per year, and has gone up 170 [...]

The fight against the I-69 NAFTA Superhighway is still heating up! On the night of Monday, May 19, the River City Animal Defense League protested at the houses of two men involved in the construction of I-69. The first protest targeted the house of a Gohmann Asphalt and Construction contractor Michael J Gohmann, at 7305 [...]