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San Francisco activists fought a plan to build a Los Angeles-sized network of freeways in San Francisco, and won.

Sources:

1. Johnson, K. M. (2009). Captain Blake versus the Highwaymen: Or, how San Francisco won the freeway revolt. Journal of Planning History, 8(1), 56-83.
2. Mohl, R. (2002). The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt. Civil Rights Research. http://www.prrac.org/pdf/mohl.pdf.

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