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Intersection of I5 / I90, Seattle, Wa

American Cities are generally designed around the road as the main transportation infrastucture. While the City Government of Seattle acknowledges the need to build more "sustainable" roads, no definition of what that means is given. The problem, I think lies not in the road structure, but in the way the road and the car is viewed as necessities in the urban landscape. Seattle may want to portray an image of itself as an environmentally progressive city (the Climate Protection Initiative is the first of four "pillars of the City's environmental work"), but as long as the road rules, it will have a major impact on the city skyline.

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