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🚨 Do you live in California ? We need your help 📢📢!! Car Brains Are Trying to Fire a Politician Because He Opposes Adding More Highway Lanes (sf.streetsblog.org)

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His crime? He listens to scientists

https://www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/does-widening-highways-ease-traffic-congestion

Angry car brains are now trying to fire Mike Swire

At 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 10 (today!) in San Carlos (at Samtrans HQ or Zoom), the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (SMCTA) will vote on removing Mike Swire, one of its most vocal critics.

You can sign this letter here:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-smcta-board-from-silencing-critics?source=direct_link&link_id=1&can_id=25b80f35b8285f3fa952daafb4dfd0b4&email_referrer=email_2807548&email_subject=urgent-stop-smcta-from-silencing-highway-widening-advocates

You can also attend the meeting on Zoom or physically.

Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

curious what this group's proposal would be for that stretch of land where the widened road would be

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Don’t widen it, add more public transit. You’re not going to need wider roads (like the fucking 101 needs to be any wider) if you give people accessible non-car options. And widening the road is a money pit anyway, it doesn’t solve traffic. “Just keep adding lanes” is magical thinking.

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