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Breaking Down the Proposed I-526 Extensionnew

On July 25, researchers at the University of South Carolina mailed a one-question questionnaire to 5,000 Lowcountry households: "Do you favor or oppose building the extension of the Mark Clark Expressway along this proposed route?" (Half the surveys actually read "oppose or favor," just to counteract any bias built into the phrasing.)
Charleston City Paper  |  Paul Bowers  |  09-19-2012  |  Policy Issues

The Dead Freeway Society: The Strange History of Portland's Unbuilt Roadsnew

While other American cities have built, built, built, Portland's freeway history is boom and bust: massive road projects were planned, mapped, and sold as progress by one generation, then killed by another.
The Portland Mercury  |  Sarah Mirk  |  09-25-2009  |  Transportation

Bikes Liberate Toronto Expresswaynew

On May 30, three hundred cyclists formed a critical mass to hijack Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway.
NOW Magazine  |  David Thomson  |  06-06-2008  |  Transportation

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