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Monday, January 29, 2001

A perfectly good opportunity for building another road nearly gone to waste

"From a conservation perspective, this parkway is a heartbreak. For people who care about efficient government, this road is heartbreak. The people who thought this up should get a lot of credit because it is a brilliant circumvention of good environmental and governmental policy." "

St. Petersburg Times. Don Crane looks at cypress swamps, pine plantations and pastures and envisions asphault and automobiles. "I was always wondering when all that land would get gobbled up, and we'd never get a chance to build a road."'

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