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Denvil Coombe, a transport adviser to the government, has pointed out that within a year of the M25 being widened, traffic nearly doubled between Junctions 9 and 10, wiping out any benefits.

The state contributed three-fourths of the financing for the new Union Beach bulkhead, widened traffic-choked Route 36 from two to four lanes and forced local industries to drastically reduce the effluents they released into the bay.

Some lawmakers have suggested fast-tracking a project to widen traffic corridors that feed into Everett.

Since then, some streets have been given over to pedestrians, pavements have been widened and traffic-light phasing has been changed in favour of people on foot.

Additional money is earmarked by the state to widen the traffic lanes of Front Street, where the park is located, and add off-site parking fields.

"The fact is anytime you widen a traffic lane, you give drivers the opportunity to go faster, and the faster a driver goes, the more serious are pedestrian injuries".

Caltrans predicted that without the widening project, traffic speeds on SR 78 would be as low as 15 mph by the year 2000 because of congestion.

In the future, perhaps pavements could be widened at low­-traffic times, or traffic limited when the street is overcrowded.

Few streets were widened to accommodate traffic and allow for new street tree planting.

Cons Those who have bought second homes say they would like to see Route 54 widened to handle traffic at the intersection of Route 1 on summer weekends.

However, road construction has encountered serious opposition from the country's environmentalist movement, and in inhabited areas the roads sometimes have been narrowed rather than widened to reduce traffic speed.