Tuesday, May 27, 2008

OK City to Tear Down Highway



OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma has a radical solution for repairing the state's busiest highway. Tear it down. Build a park.

The aging Crosstown Expressway — an elevated 4.5-mile stretch of Interstate 40 — will be demolished in 2012. An old-fashioned boulevard and a mile-long park will be constructed in its place.

Oklahoma City is doing what many cities dream about: saying goodbye to a highway.

USA Today

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

But the article points out it's mostly a relocation of the freeway, not an elimination of it.

Anonymous said...

"cities evolve one messy step at a time"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/13/BAGP6EMIOR1.DTL

Josh Mahar said...

If only Seattle could jump on the bandwagon. Sigh...

http://blog.smartgrowthamerica.org/?p=122#more-122