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 On
the transportation front, it’s a numbers game and the numbers are
sobering. Oregon is growing—fast. By 2050 forecasters say there
will be an additional 1.7 million residents in the Willamette Valley.
That would make the total population in the valley around 4 million
people, and of course all those people are going to have transportation
needs.
If we continue to satisfy those needs through use of cars and trucks,
as we have for most of the past century, a lot of fossil fuels will
be converted into carbon monoxide and a lot of new demands will be placed
on our already overtaxed roadway system.
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