Our Overbuilt Road Network Costs Americans Trillions in Lost Housing Opportunities

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By Kea WilsonAug 26, 2024, 12:04 am138 pts
America has poured enough asphalt to build its sprawling auto-centric road network to cover the entire nation of the Netherlands, according to a new study — and in the process sacrificed trillions of dollars worth of land that could have been put to better uses like housing. U.S. metros were home to a…

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