California To End Freeway Building

California Governor Gray Davis dedicates the latest freeway section and says it will be the last. The state will focus transportation funds on mass transit systems.

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August 23, 2001, 9:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

" California is identified more closely with freeways and the automobile than any other state -- it has slightly more than 15,000 miles of roads. But like other states, it long ago abandoned the hope that highways alone would solve growing urban transportation problems.Mr. Davis used today's ribbon-cutting ceremony on a broiling, smoggy afternoon to underscore this fundamental shift, saying that the primacy of the automobile in transportation planning was over."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

FULL STORY: California Governor Sees an End to Freeway Building

Tuesday, August 21, 2001 in The New York Times

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