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It’s been awhile since our last installment of the “Wasted Space” conversations (RiverSouth, Convention Center Parking Lot, Neil & Vine) but one thing that’s been catching my attention lately on the map is the giant chunk of southeastern downtown real estate currently being used as a connector between 71, 70, and the ramps in between the highways and the streets nearby.
Highway caps are no stranger to discussion around here, but those can only do so much to conceal our downtown highway scars that currently segregate our city’s neighborhoods. What (if anything) can be done about this big spaghetti-looking mess? Some of it is landscaped a bit, which just means long grass that rarely gets mowed and highway trash that rarely gets picked up.
Anyone have any ideas for a fix? Would it be possible to dig a little deeper, bury the whole thing, and build over top of it? Or would that be too restrictive for future highway expansion?
Agreed. I think balancing new development between mass transit and roadways will be the gradual change we need to achieve. To rip out old roadways and actually move that mode of transportation abruptly backwards would only upset the majority of the population. And I garuntee the majority of them wouldn’t be of the mindset of “Oh, I guess now we have no choice but to adapt to mass transit” but instead would think “Oh, I guess now we have no choice but to move to another city”.
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Hey Walker….that was your 10,000th post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quite a milestone. You should get a free toaster or something.
Oy Vey.
I think a vacation is more in order than a toaster!
:lol:
Oh wow, that’s a lot of posts. 8)
Lets dump all those old posts in the middle of those big loops! :D
Nice! Randomize it all and there’s your inter-loop destination:
The Oracle of Walker at Columbus
This just goes to show that transit in many cases does work and people will ride it if they have options. This will happen to such an extent that the removal of a highway will not be felt by the surrunding community at all.
Expected freeway traffic horrors don’t develop
Fewer vehicles on road; BART posts ridership record
Patrick Hoge, Erin McCormick, Chronicle Staff Writers
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?=/c/a/2007/05/03/MNGQOPJU651.DTL