> Ask the locals, try some sort of ideas? That's what the article is about... > Mr. Tafoya was working for the City Council when he heard about the plan to ex

> Ask the locals, try some sort of ideas? That's what the article is about... > Mr. Tafoya was working for the City Council when he heard about the plan to expand the highway just blocks from where his mother still lived. “I-70 radicalized me,” he said. He quit his job and helped organize a statewide coalition of activists and community members who tried to stop the Interstate 70 expansion with lawsuits and protests. In the end, Interstate 70 was expanded. But the fight served as a warning to leaders like Ms. Lew that future highway construction would face spirited opposition.