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"Reining in a fast-expanding network of suburban roads and bolstering a mass transit system might increase congestion, the study acknowledges. But it also will ultimately lower greenhouse gas emissions.
'Development and environmental quality should go together. If the environmental aspect is missed, then it might be too late,' said Govinda Timilsina, one of the report's authors."
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