She remembered reading that California had halted freeway construction for eight years in the 1970s and '80s.
And yet the current governor had announced his own ban on freeway construction.
Much of the land intended for freeway construction is still unoccupied.
In the 1970s, the interstate freeway construction split the neighborhood.
It has since been almost completely obliterated by freeway construction.
The graves were excavated in late 2006 during freeway construction.
"In February we're going to have more freeway construction than we'll know what to do with."
It's as if the notion of freeway construction simply vanished in 1975.
The growth of the environmental movement in the 1960s created resistance to new freeway construction.
Additional freeway construction in the 1960s and 1970s formed the current boundaries of Downtown.