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Originally Posted by Newspaperguy
That reminds me of another sprawl story. In the late 1940s or early 1950s, Highway 401 was built near Toronto. At the time, people couldn't figure out why the highway was so far from the city. Today it cuts through the metro area.
We have had that problem around here, they build a bypass then over a period of years it gets built up and becomes as bad as the road it bypassed to begin with Now they are building bypasses as limited access to avoid the problem, but it isn't any help IMHO.

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