Santa Monica looks to cap Interstate 10 in new downtown plan

The Architects Newspaper ^ | January 10, 2018 | Antonio Pacheco

[vooch]

cover a below grade freeway with a park

[going hot]

Used to be you took I 10 west 'til it hit the ocean, then you were literally on the west coast.

Texas compadres were introduced, they liked the Legendary California Foxes.

[llevrok]

ask Seattle how they like I-5 capped. They limited themselves to two lanes each direction when they capped it in the middle of the city center.

This created a park (now full of bums, perverts and needles) as well as a space for an under sized state convention center that sits vacant much of the year.

AS a result, 4 lanes squish into 2 for about 3 or 4 miles. Some of the worst congestion in the country.

[hinckley buzzard]

Highway capping is an idea that goes all the way back to the 1920’s in the US. Early urban architects were very conscious of the need for human open space between what they expected would be rows of tall skyscrapers. The airspace over main thoroughfares was an attractive resource to be developed. The Great Depression pretty much put the kibosh to futuristic urban planning at the time.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A cap is a concrete cover put over a sunken section of freeway to connect areas separated by the freeway. Typically, a park is put on top of the cap.

[AlaskaErik]

Not only that, but the morons are in the process of shutting down and eliminating Santa Monica Airport.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=11685

Topography of Terror (article about Freeway Park in Seattle and how its design and location over a noisy freeway led to crime)

[KTM rider]

its been 10 years since I lived in that area but if I remember correctly, Mar Vista is an urban blight , filled with illegal aliens and loaded with gang scum housed in Urban development "projects" surrounded on one side by industrial area and separated from the high dollar upper class area of Marina Del Rey ONLY by the 10 freeway

If the social justice warriors "cap" the 10 freeway there, the gates of hell will spill over, giving the zombies from hell easy access to shuffle into the American Dream to assimilate like a flu virus

[catnipman]

all this bullshit about “transforming” transportation into “multi-modal mode” is nothing more than a euphemism for turning existing street lanes into bike lanes, bus-only lanes and sidewalks. The result will be total traffic gridlock in leftist paradise because NO ONE IS GOING TO GET OUT OF THEIR CARS NO MATTER WHAT!

[doorgunner69]

question the commitment L.A. residents have not only toward prioritizing the City’s plan for eliminating all traffic deaths by 2025, but also their reluctance to take personal responsibility for reducing transportation-related carbon emissions across the region.

Ah, only in L.A. where unicorns prance and life is wonderful.

Still so very glad I got out of that state 12 years ago.

[sheana]

Lastly, might this be a moot point given the destruction of 101 in the mudslides.

The mudslides were up by Santa Barbara.....quite a ways away. About 75 miles.
The 101 was not destroyed. They expect it to be open again on Monday.

[BobL]

“all interstates should be privatized and federal gas tax eliminated
sell the land and improvements with zero regulatory oversight
let the free market do its magic”

You’re sounding so silly here, repeating the same talking points over and over, that there’s no reason to even debate you anymore.

[vooch]

we get their money AND keep the assets right here. Sounds like a win all around.

We did this to the Japs in the 80s. Who got the last laugh ? We did