Andrew Price
The Congress for the New Urbanism just released a list of ten "Freeways without Futures." They're America's most disruptive, wrong-headed, unsafe and/or outdated urban expressways. Most were built in the 1950s and 1960s as elevated, limited-access conduits to and from the suburbs. Dropping ten lanes of traffic on top of a cozy urban neighborhood does not, as it turns out, make it any nicer. See if your local concrete monstrosity is on the list!
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