Can a wider highway save livelihoods?

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

On US 2 in northern MontanaHoping a Wider Highway Can Save Their Livelihoods Jim Robbins wrote an article that appeared in the New York Times on December 17, 2006, reporting on efforts to widen US Highway 2 in northern Montana (see above link to PDF file of his article, "Hoping a Wider Highway Can Save Their Livelihoods")   Frank Popper, a professor of geography at Rutgers University, has studied the depopulating Great Plains and says that trying to widen this highway " .  .  .  smacks of desperation.  .   ."  Dr. Popper thinks we should restore the native prairie instead of making major investments in roads where there is no demand.  He may have the right idea. 

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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