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So we'll give CDOT a pass to screw over the neighborhood, again, and not ask them for anything in return? No way. The price of building and expanding massive highways through urban areas has to include mitigation, or the deal's off. If highway departments can't be bothered to make their highways fit the cities they go through, then they can bloody well go around instead of through. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile? We could say the same thing about highway builders.

If we want to argue caps here aren't appropriate because they wouldn't make a difference, that's one thing. If we want to argue it's too expensive and cuts out other better priorities from the budget, that's also fine. But it's silly to argue that CDOT can spend $1.8 billion on a huge highway expansion through an existing area, plus spend millions every year on maintaining all those extra lanes and dealing with all the extra VMT they will induce, but can't be troubled to deal with a few ongoing operations headaches that we know are not deal-breakers in Ohio, Texas, or anywhere else.