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More Cities are Razing Urban Highways | Rethinking I-81
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. More Cities are Razing Urban Highways. Removal of aging highways is a strategy some cities are using to try and boost their downtown districts http:/ www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0302/Downtown-need-a-makeover-More-cities-are-razing-urban-highways. 8211; Christian Science Monitor. Correspondent / March 2, 2011. New Haven, Conn. This entry was posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 5:48 pm and is filed under Highway Planning. Feed You can leave a response.
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“Highway Removal” Project in Cleveland Looks an Awful Lot Like a Highway | Rethinking I-81
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. Highway Removal Project in Cleveland Looks an Awful Lot Like a Highway. According to the March 23, 2011 Streetsblog. Didn’t get it quite right in reporting that Cleveland is replacing a freeway with a tree-lined pedestrian-friendly boulevard a la the Embarcadero. In SF or Park East. The elevated, limited-access Route 5 restricts access to the lakefront and limits development potential according to opponents, but DOT rejected calls for an at-grade boulevard.
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Rethinking I-81 | OCL's Study Blog | Page 2
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. 8220;Rethinking I-81” Study Report Released. August 5, 2009. Anticipating the I-81 Challenge. The Onondaga Citizens League. 8220;Rethinking I-81”. Study Report with the goal that the community meet the I-81 challenge with a vision that is not mired in the past, but that clearly anticipates the needs of tomorrow. If your group would like a presentation on the study, contact ocl@syr.edu. 8220;Rethinking I-81”: OCL’s Study Blog. June 4, 2009. May 27, 2009.
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Claiborne Expressway, NOLA: CNU Freeway Without a Future #3 | Rethinking I-81
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. Claiborne Expressway, NOLA: CNU Freeway Without a Future #3. A proposal for transforming the 1940s Iberville complex in downtown New Orleans into a denser mixed-income neighborhood, hinges on removal of I-10, an elevated highway, which in the 1960’s replaced Claiborne Avenue, a broad tree-lined boulevard that was then a bustling African-American commercial strip. An article published this week in the New York Times Critic’s Notebook. States that “Dem...
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Chicago’s Lawrence Avenue to Get a Trim | Rethinking I-81
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. Chicago’s Lawrence Avenue to Get a Trim. THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER. Chicago’s Lawrence Avenue to Get a Trim. Planned ‘road diet’ will bring bike lanes, street trees, and pedestrian amenities to major commercial corridor. Lawrence Avenue east of Western Avenue will include curb extensions with bioswales and pedestrian refuges. A mile-long stretch of Lawrence Avenue between Western and Ashland avenues with four travel lanes will be cut to three with full bik...
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Less Congestion, More Sprawl | Rethinking I-81
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. Less Congestion, More Sprawl. More on the irrationality of current traffic congestion measures, from Gateway Streets. A St Louis blog:. Work continues on 141 between Olive and 364. Credit: modot stl photos. The answer to the puzzle, of course, lies in the sprawling nature of St. Louis’s suburbs. Between 1950 and 2000. St Louis’s urban population grew 48% while urban land area grew over 260%. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
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Gridlock! Traffic! Crying Wolf in Seoul | Rethinking I-81
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. Crying Wolf in Seoul. What would happen if they took out what was considered a vital traffic artery carrying 168,000 cars per day? Improved travel time, improved environment, increased property values, more public space, revitalized central business district. Kamala Rao, MCIP, Transportation Planner in Vancouver, BC, and a Sightline board member, profiles Seoul’s success story of urban highway removal at Sightline Daily. Feed You can leave a response.
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Driven Apart | Rethinking I-81
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OCL's Study Blog. Onondaga Citizens League Site. As The I-81 Challenge. 8211; official decision-making process led by two entities, the New York State Department of Transportation. And the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council (SMTC). The region’s metropolitan planning organization (MPO) – gets into gear, the. Blog will reopen for comments. How sprawl is lengthening our commutes and why misleading mobility measures are making things worse. Feed You can leave a response. From your own site. You are...