Proposed CA state law seeks to ban freeway expansion in underserved communities suffering poverty, pollution and health issues by blocking funding and permits. Assemblywoman Garcia, the author of the legislation, notes that “freeway widenings frequently fail to resolve traffic congestion because they induce more car trips.”
Pennsylvania needs this kind of legislation to block PennDOT’s waterfront highway expansion plan that will further harm residents of some of the nation’s most diverse and impoverished neighborhoods in the City of Erie zip codes 16501, 16052 and 16503.