Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: freeway sounds [FWD]

[David G Adams (dadams]

Tom Ponessa writes...
> Highways are in fact anti-urban. They are single purpose conduits for movi
> traffic. Streets are urban. Life takes place on streets (multi-purpose) wi
> buildings, public spaces, cars and pedestrians. Urban life does not take
> place
> on the interstate. Seattle built a park over a freeway. Boston dismantled 
> elevated freeway. Toronto is in a perennial quandry over its own elevated
> expressway because it cuts off downtown from the lake. In other words it
> is anti-urban.
> 
Excellent points.  A minor nit, though.  I don't think Boston has dismantled 
any elevated expressways to date.  We are in the early stages of a massive 
project / boondoggle to bury the Central Artery and replace the ground level 
with some buildings and some parks.  It will be an amazing accomplishment if 
/ when completed.  That will be at least 6 years and $10 Billion from now.  
A fine example of humanizing the city is Tom McCall Park in Portland OR, 
which used to be a major roadway, but is now a park on the banks of the 
Willamette.  

Dave

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