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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Cancelled highway projects in Canada, Cancelled highway projects in the United States, Unused highways lists, Freeway and expressway revolts, Spadina Expressway, Cancelled expressways in Toronto, List of unused highways in Canada, Canceled expressways in Florida, List of Suffolk County Road proposals, North Central Freeway, California State Route 480, Mount Hood Freeway, Interstate 170, Northeast Freeway, List of unused roads in the United Kingdom, Inner Loop, Northwest Expressway, Interstate 695, Interstate 687, Interstate 895, North Cross Route, Lower Manhattan Expressway, Mid-Manhattan Expressway, M12 motorway, Crosstown Expressway, Stockholm ring road, List of unused highways in Germany, Sound Shore Parkway, Outer Perimeter, Southwest Corridor, Osterleden, Stockholm, Interstate 487, Caumsett State Parkway, Stadium Freeway, Interstate 335, North Western Expressway, Vieux Carre Riverfront Expressway, Interstate 284, Interstate 505, Rose City Freeway, Bay Freeway, Northeast Expressway, Interstate 266, 125th Street Hudson River bridge, Woodruff Expressway, Interstate 595, Fox Valley Freeway, Interstate 420, List of unused highways in New Zealand, Ponquogue Causeway, M13 motorway, M64 motorway, Lane Cove Valley Expressway, Eastwood County Road. Excerpt: Many freeway revolts (also expressway revolts, road protests) took place in developed countries during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to plans for the construction of new freeways, a significant number of which were abandoned or significantly scaled back due to widespread public opposition; especially of those whose neighborhoods would be disrupted or displaced by the proposed freeways, and due to various other negative effects that freeways are considered to have. In the United States the "revolts" occurred mainly in cities, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cl...