The Northwest Hillsborough Expressway and its present-day counterpart, the East-West Road, in Tampa, Florida, have been the subject of heavy controversy since their beginnings in the 1980s. Most of the local opposition comes from the northern Hillsborough County community of Lutz, which has made many successful efforts (both in the past and present times) to halt construction of the highway through their neighborhoods.
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