#highwayremoval — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #highwayremoval, aggregated by home.social.
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Raised crossings on the new designs for McGrath Boulevard! So many good things in these plans, it'll be a huge improvement and can't come soon enough.
#SomervilleMA #GroundingMcGrath #HighwayRemoval #MassDOT -
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-06/buffalo-highway-cap-project-halted-as-activists-call-for-full-removal “The complete removal of the freeway, Sherill and her colleagues say, would be less expensive and have greater environmental benefits than the project as currently proposed.” #Buffalo #Olmsted #HighwayRemoval
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Auch das ist die #USA: #RoadDiets (Reduktion von Fahrstreifen zB zugunsten von Radwegen) und #HighwayRemoval (Stadtautobahnen werden abgerissen und zB in Oregon durch Park ersetzt). Quelle: https://vcoe.at/publikationen/vcoe-schriftenreihe-mobilitaet-mit-zukunft/detail/verkehrssystem-sanieren-fuer-die-zukunft
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@resilienceSci 🙏for helpful link. I'm still none the wiser on broader traffic flow, but found this very positive assessment from a foreign resident's perspective, 20 years on:
https://thebentway.ca/stories/cheonggyecheon-rip-it-up-and-start-again/& the 2011 'Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project' case study referred to in the article, which explains the benefits to the immediate neighbourhood in the first 5 years 2003-8, is now at
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/cheonggyecheon-stream-restoration-project#Cheonggyecheon #HighwayRemoval #LivableCity #Seoul @BrentToderian
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(12/n) Another view showing the impact of ongoing highway and parking lot removal discussed in post 10/n.
(Photo from this week via City of New Haven. Historical photo of the same area after a highway and parking lots were built in 1959). #newhaven #nhv #connecticut #urbanism #cities #urbanplanning #highwayremoval
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[When] “road capacity increases by 1 percent, the number of cars on the road after a few years also increases by 1 percent.”
The Katy Freeway in #Houston is “one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes.” Within five years of its expansion, “peak hour travel times on the freeway were longer than before the expansion.”
Photo: NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html #urbanplanning #highwayremoval #traffic #texas
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The most pleasant and walkable #cities in the United States do not have limited access highways in their downtowns.
4 aerial photos: #Madison, #NewHaven, #AnnArbor (with #Hartford provided for contrast).
Although it may not be apparent to a driver, few businesses or human activities can succeed in areas close to the noise, traffic, and pollution of large highways. Planners should be working on urban #highwayremoval, not expansions.
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(2/n) Entire city of Siena, Italy (population 30,000) fits inside of a highway interchange in Houston, Texas (population 0): @stamen https://stamen.com/introducing-scale-a-tron-91081062e2d0/ #siena #houston #urbanism #urbanplanning #highwayremoval #cities #sprawl #transportation #maps #mapstodon #mapping
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The entire city of Florence, Italy could fit within this highway interchange in Atlanta.
#firenze #urbanplanning #urbanism #highwayremoval #cities #walkability #sustainability #climatecrisis #sprawl #atlanta
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(10/n) 13 lanes of highways, off-ramps, and frontage roads built during the "urban renewal" period ▶️ Two new 10-14 story towers with 1,000,000 square feet of laboratory and retail space, built on top of the removed highway and a narrower frontage road with grade-separate bike lanes.
New Haven
Photos: Google Streetview (2011), me (today) #nhv #newhaven #connecticut #urbanism #cities #highways #highwayremoval #urbanplanning
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Syracuse’s Messy I-81 Teardown Fight Shows the Challenge of ‘Reconnecting Communities’: New at #Streetsblog @streetsblogmass https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/12/12/syracuses-messy-i-81-teardown-fight-shows-the-challenge-of-reconnecting-communities/ #syracuse #syr #urbanism #i81 #urbanplanning #highwayremoval #urbanpolicy