Two months ago an obscure but powerful local committee held a hearing on $1.5 billion in government spending, but no one testified. The hearing before the Metropolitan Policy Committee MPC, an intergovernmental group of local elected officials, was on a Regional Transportation Plan RTP that would largely ignore local concerns about global warming, livability and urban sprawl by investing $1.5 billion in highways over the next two decades. In the past couple years, the city of Eugene has held dozens of public hearings and meetings involving thousands of citizens to develop plans to reduce climate pollution from driving, increase bicycling, increase walkable, 20-minute neighborhoods and envision a city with less sprawl. But the RTP ignores all of that, envisioning a metropolis dominated by massive freeway projects.
Read the entire article at the Eugene Weekly: Road Overkill.
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