NO MORE FREEWAYS!
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Activist Aaron Brown wants you to start a freeway revolt in your town! Does expanding freeways actually create more congestion while it also worsens climate change? Also, Thom's listeners engage on a wide range of topics.
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| 0:47.2 | No more freeways. This is amazing. Things that I learned actually in |
| 0:51.6 | the neighbor of mine turned me on to this and there is a movement going on here in Portland. |
| 0:56.7 | I am embarrassed to say I was unaware that has to do with an effort by the city and the county |
| 1:02.2 | and the state to expand the freeway that runs i5 that runs right up through the middle of our |
| 1:06.4 | city here in Portland. Local movement of young people have come out to say no and the reasons |
| 1:11.9 | why are extraordinary. Aaron Brown is on the line with us. Aaron is a political organizer with no |
| 1:16.9 | more freeways, pdx, and that's the website. No more freeways, pdx, pdx, pdx, like in |
| 1:22.4 | Portland.com and no more freeways on Twitter. I just retweeted their pinned tweet a few minutes ago. |
| 1:27.6 | Aaron, welcome to the program. Tell us first of all what brought you guys together and how this |
| 1:31.6 | got started. This really stems from the fact I've been working in transportation advocacy for |
| 1:36.3 | four of the decade at this point. After seeing how many traffic fatalities we have around a |
| 1:41.2 | region, the 40% of Oregon's carbon emissions that come from transportation and the fact that |
| 1:45.6 | freeways have never ever actually improved a traffic congestion by widening the freeways, |
| 1:51.2 | it became apparent to me that we need to stop spending billions of dollars on these projects |
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