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For decades, experts have touted that wider roads are better. If true, Phoenix wouldn't need light rail, and ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ wouldn't experience weekly headlines about yet another pedestrian death. We, the citizenry, have consistently told state, regional, and local officials that mp, we do not want a cross-town freeway, whether or not it's called a "regionally significant corridor" instead. And no, we do not want a bypass, whether that roadway is buried in any of the side-projects associated with a new freeway or the necessary funding shuffle associated with the "complete Barraza-Aviation" Downtown Links project passed as one of 32 projects comprising a transportation improvement package featuring the Modern Streetcar. What we have consistently said, and voted for, is passenger rail around town and between ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ International Airport and Sky Harbor, instead of doubling I-10 to 12-14 lanes through Downtown ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ to save less than an hour from Nogales to Wickenburg, as ADOT offers with I-11. Be heard, at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Convention Center, Ballroom/lobby 3-8 p.m. May 8.

Camille Kershner

East side

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