[linear]

Good luck with that.

[eyeamok]

Claiborne Avenue runs the length of the city, at about 9.5 miles (15.3 kilometers). Before the construction of the I-10 freeway on Claiborne Avenue, the area was a vibrant marketplace in the historically African-American Tremé – a traditional African-American neighborhood in New Orleans. Oak trees lined the sidewalks and Azalea bushes bloomed as dwellers visited coffeeshops and street merchants. As many as 326 businesses were lost when construction of the freeway began.

I wonder if all these people know the Real Name of Interstate 10???

” The Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Expressway”

I have seen that sign at the beginning of the 10 in Santa Monica for as long as I can remember.

[Wuli]

And they’ll want federal HUD “economic development” grants.

Another failed urban economic development project in the making.

[bgill]

More wasted tax dollars.

[a fool in paradise]

>>New Orleans’ vision for the Cultural Innovation District is to transform all 19 blocks under the freeway into a public space equipped with new green infrastructure, a market with food and art vendors, with space for exhibitions and community events.

I loathe these public-private for profit parks. City real estate is privatized and the “trade off” is so-called “community” events (rented from the organization that oversees the real estate).

Houston is awash with them. The parks got sold out from under us. The Convention center is managed by a private concern. The visitors bureau too and they tried to trademark “Space City” even though it’s been in use over 50 years.

Non-profit doesn’t mean that people don’t make 6 or 7 figures at the top.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Atlanta, Ohio and New Orleans, among other U.S. cities, want to follow San Francisco’s lead of removing freeways.

Damned Marxists who hate the automobile and the highway system.

[a fool in paradise]

Houston's doing it too:

http://swamplot.com/big-i-45-downtown-rerouting-grand-parkway-expansion-get-go-aheads/2017-03-29/

BIG I-45 DOWNTOWN REROUTING, GRAND PARKWAY EXPANSION GET GO-AHEADS

Yesterday was a big day for Houston freeway expansion and reconfiguration: On Tuesday, the Texas Transportation Commission gave the go-ahead for construction to begin in late 2020 on the first of 7 separate projects that will move I-45 from the west and south sides of Downtown to its east side, paralleling U.S. 59 behind the George R. Brown, reports Chron transportation writer Dug Begley.

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And the greenie weenies want to turn the former elevated highway into a green park that would still bisect downtown from midtown.

And they want 45 and 59 parallel and sunken under you guessed it a park to be constructed.