“Community Connectors” all across the country are fighting against divisive, destructive, and unaffordable freeway expansions, trying to advance projects to remove old highways, making wide, dangerous arterial roads a little safer for people to cross, or just improving basic infrastructure people depend on each day. This section is home to a growing list of profiles—spanning a spectrum of wins, losses, and ambitious projects in the works—to inspire other Community Connectors around the country.
Stories of success
- Greenville, SC: Out with the cars, in with the people
- Milwaukee, WI: The long fight for connectivity
Community Connectors hard at work
Challenges and learning opportunities
- San Juan, Puerto Rico: Trampling communities and a national rainforest in the name of “economic progress”
- Pittsburgh, PA: Reconnecting the Hill District to downtown Pittsburgh
- Salt Lake City, UT: Building highway after highway to solve congestion
Community Connectors: tools for advocates
You may be fighting against a freeway expansion. You may be trying to advance a Reconnecting Communities project to remove an old highway. You might be just trying to make wide, dangerous arterial roads a little safer for people to cross. This Community Connectors portal explains common terms, decodes the processes, clarifies the important actors, and inspires with helpful real-world stories.
Thank you
We are grateful to support from the Summit Foundation, the Barr Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their support of various pieces of this ongoing project.Read about our grantees
We’re supporting 15 teams from small to mid-sized cities with plans to reconnect communities separated or harmed by transportation infrastructure.
Learn more about these 15 projects
