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After decades of diligent advocacy, community members in Montgomery County have finally deleted a proposed new highway from the County’s Master Plan of Highways and Transitways!

The proposed highway in question was the M-83, the Mid-County Highway Extended, which was a six-mile, planned-but-unbuilt, six-lane highway with a $1.37 billion price tag. It would have cut through park land and drinking water sources; damaging water quality, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and spending enormous financial resources that could go toward public transit instead.

For almost 50 years, fierce opposition