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Say you want a hat that’s also a margarita jug. What! We’re not going to judge you! Is buying it online the worst thing you could do for the environment? Not necessarily — a lot of the impact of your purchase depends on things like, for example, how dense your community is. Watch our video above to learn more.







![What happens to traffic when you tear down a freeway?
The compelling case for removing urban freeways.
Further Reading:
CityLab University: Induced Demand:
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-university-induced-demand/569455/
Norman Garrick in Citylab:
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/11/reimagining-the-urban-freeway-holding-back-providence/508373/
Vox: How Highways Wrecked Urban American Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odF4GSX1y3c
Congress for New Urbanism – Highways to Boulevards
https://www.cnu.org/resources/project-database?tags[182]=182
Harbor Drive
https://www.cnu.org/highways-boulevards/model-cities/portland
Embarcadero Freeway
https://www.cnu.org/what-we-do/build-great-places/embarcadero-freeway
Governor Tom McCall – Oregon Historical Society:
https://www.ohs.org/education/tom-mccall-better-oregon/resources.cfm
Law of Peak Hour Expressway Congestion
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b3477;view=1up;seq=467
“From elevated freeways to surface boulevards: neighborhood and housing price impacts in San Francisco” by Robert Cervero , et al.
https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549170902833899?scroll=top&needAccess=true What happens to traffic when you tear down a freeway?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O6WtYTThkdU/mqdefault.jpg)


