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Freeways Without Futures

Posted at 10:24 am on Monday, September 29, 2008, in Uncategorized, and tagged .

The Congress for the New Urbanism has listed its top ten freeways that need to be removed, and three of them hit home for me…

3. The Skyway and Route 5, Buffalo, NY
6. Interstate 81, Syracuse, NY
8. Route 29, Trenton, NJ

The textbook case history for a removed freeway reinvigorating a part of a city is the Embarcadero Freeway in San Francisco that was demolished following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The elevated double-decker freeway ran along the waterfront, and in its absence, a grand pedestrian boulevard has come to life.

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