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
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But the article points out it's mostly a relocation of the freeway, not an elimination of it.
"cities evolve one messy step at a time"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/13/BAGP6EMIOR1.DTL
If only Seattle could jump on the bandwagon. Sigh...
http://blog.smartgrowthamerica.org/?p=122#more-122
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