"The rule, adopted in 2021, requires the #Colorado Department of Transportation and regional planning organizations to prove how any highway expansion project would reduce pollution. Projects that fail to do so could lose their funding.

Within a year, the department nixed two major #HighwayWidening projects and redirected $100 million to greener alternatives like better #PublicTransit."

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/colorado-highway-widening-ban-restriction/

State adopts controversial rule that makes it harder to expand and build new highways — here's what's happened since

In a bold move, Colorado has made it harder to widen highways or build new ones in an effort to reduce pollution.

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@CelloMomOnCars

ah yes, a proposal that should reduce wildfire risk and move more people instead of more cars is a “controversial” idea