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To: TimF who wrote (150686)	8/30/2002 2:18:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1585780

True but most environmentalist oppose new road building. Understandably. Sometimes by doing so they are getting in the way of the results they want. Tim, on the surface it might look that way but in reality, new roads, specifically freeways, begat more traffic. When most freeways were proposed, it was expected they would open with excess capacity since many of them were running out to exurban areas. However, by the time the planning and construction were completed, private developers had built up the areas contiguous to the new freeway and the area was no longer exurban.........and the freeways opened at or nearly at full capacity. The same thing has happened with freeways built in the last 10 to 15 years. Making matters worse, the new freeways played to Americans penchant for newness as well as its racial fears, and so encouraged the wholesale abandonment of whole sections of our metropolitan areas while at the same time opening up rural areas to development. The result was urban sprawl which is partly responsible for the degradation of our environment.......both the air and the land. Understandably, therefore, freeways are a bane to environmentalists. ted

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