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Antiroad protest in the UK mushroomed in the mid-1990s, with high profile campaigns at Twyford Down (1992), Oxleas Wood & Wanstead, London (1993/94), Bath (1994), Blackburn (1994/95), Glasgow Pollock (1994/95), & Newbury (1996). A detailed examination of one such protest at Solsbury Hill, Bath, shows that the mobilizing factors behind it were more than concerns about the road itself, illustrated by discourses of ecology, community defense, & risk. Analysis of the protest & of these agendas using social movement theory shows the antiroads movement to be a negotiation sometimes involving confrontation between activists, whose primary focus is on forcing policymakers to stop the building of this particular road & generally change their proroad agenda; & those engaged in a more explicitly counterculture protest against the wider "car culture." The strategy of the former is best conceptualized under the resource mobilization approach, while that of the latter fits more explicitly with the new social movement paradigm. A local analysis of a specific antiroads protest shows the problems & possibilities of both approaches to the analysis of green & urban social movements. 43 References. Adapted from the source document.