Story by Bloomberg’s City Lab about Seattle’s multi-part multi-billion dollar plan to remove a highway viaduct, reclaim its waterfront, and build a large new park… Read More »Seattle is Reclaiming its Waterfront — Bloomberg
A Builtworlds story about how several different cities (Chicago, Milwaukee, and Seattle) have successfully reconnected their downtown areas to their waterfront.
A PBS (WHYY) story about how small cities are finding new ways to connect to their waterfronts.
A Streetsblog USA story investigating the common belief that removing stoplights reduces air pollution. According to their research, while a car idling at a stoplight… Read More »Stoplight Removal Does NOT Reduce Emissions — StreetsBlog
A 2013 study hosted at the US Department of Transportation’s Repository and Open Access Portal that discusses the process and outcome of nine highway removal… Read More »US DOT Report about Highway Removal Projects
A Lincoln Institute of Land Policy article examining the national trend of highway removal with historical background from across the country. Cases covered in more… Read More »Urban Highway Removal – Lincoln Institute
A fantastic interactive New York Times article (may require a subscription) that explores how many of America’s biggest cities were broken apart by highways built… Read More »Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities? – NY Times
When Rt9 was put in, it was the only light between the Long Island Sound and the Canadian border. You could just drive all the… Read More »Historical Context: Quotes from Stakeholders
“Minimiz[ing] impacts on the local roads [is] pretty much the lowest of the DoD priorities, but it’s the highest of our priorities.” – Howard Weissberg,… Read More »Community Engagement Issues: Quotes from Stakeholders
I want to see people oriented to trains or more efficient modes of travel rather than this personal, private ecosystem that people can just drive… Read More »Environmental Issues: Quotes from Stakeholders
