Despite a large public outcry and a local decades-long voting record against widening , the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission voted to pursue funding for three local Highway 1 expansion projects. The three projects were brought to the new SCCRTC on their first meeting, January 11th, 2007. The public was only informed of said projects that week. Objections to widening were raised on the basis of environmental and quality-of-life concerns. The proposed widening would disproportionately affect people living in apartments, condos and mobile home parks.

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