{"id":792391,"date":"2026-07-10T08:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:17:32","slug":"how-edmonton-protected-its-river-valleys-from-freeways-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792391\/","title":{"rendered":"How Edmonton protected its river valleys from freeways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 1963, Edmonton city staff presented the Metropolitan Edmonton Transportation Study. The study called for numerous changes to the city&#8217;s 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&#8217;s river valley. The CBC&#8217;s Kevin Sabiston explores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1963, Edmonton city staff presented the Metropolitan Edmonton Transportation Study. The study called for numerous changes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,199388,216200,279640],"class_list":["post-792391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-city","tag-river-valley","tag-transport-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792391","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=792391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}