The Clackamas Board of County Commissioners has a message for Metro regional government as it prepares to approve its Climate Smart Communities Strategy: Don't forget about roads.
The five-member commission expressed concern that the evolving plan to reduce motor vehicle emissions by 20 percent by 2035 puts too much emphasis on new public transit, bicycle and pedestrian solutions and not enough on projects like adding lanes of traffic to increasingly congested Interstate 205.
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