{"id":792016,"date":"2026-07-10T04:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792016\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:04:24","slug":"how-edmonton-protected-its-river-valleys-from-freeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792016\/","title":{"rendered":"How Edmonton protected its river valleys from freeways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 5:05<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">In 1963, Edmonton city staff presented the Metropolitan Edmonton Transportation Study. The study called for numerous changes to the city\u2019s transport system, proposing to carve up large portions of the river valley to make room for new freeways. What followed was a battle between the city and local residents that would shape Edmonton\u2019s river valley. The CBC&#8217;s Kevin Sabiston explores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 hours agoNewsDuration 5:05 In 1963, Edmonton city staff presented the Metropolitan Edmonton Transportation Study. The study called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-792016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}