Is Portland Losing Its Resolve Against Highway Expansions?

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By Angie SchmittApr 5, 2017, 11:56 am76 pts
Building safe and convenient transit and biking connections is essential, but if your local highway network is expanding, all those good things will get swamped by increases in car traffic. In the 1970s, some American cities revolted against highway expansion and kept the worst excesses of the interstate…

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