... cities, which resulted in more paved roads in between cities. Also because of the U.S. push for more affordable housing it too spread out the cities development. Washington's first attempt to limit the city's expansion was in 1960, when they wanted a regional transportation system of railways. They wanted a combination of rail and roads, but it took forever for the metro underground to ... the government to shift some of the space used by cars to the express of public busways. Yet the citizen activism has produced limited results, although it has increased the speed the traffic flow wit...

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