Sara Goodyear posted an article on Grist, Tearing Down highways that Choke Our Cities, that features the following video with John Norquist narrating.
In Seattle a battle is in progress over a bigger is better highway proposal promoted by highway welfare interests that are pushing Seattle’s version of the Boston Big Dig, an old syle mega billions of dollars project the country cannot afford. When you find you are in a hole you should stop digging. Fortunately for Seattle and the Country’s taxpayers a rising political star, Cary Moon, and People’s Waterfront Coalition are standing against the powerful interest that keep wasting public dollars on proven destructive transportation projects. Here is the story posted on Grist by David Roberts, Seattle’s impending car-centric mega-tunnel: a chat with urbanist Cary Moon.
Here is another story posted on Grist that is written by Kamala Rao, Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again. Below are some pictures after the tear down. Note how homage was paid to the past mistake of the inner expressway by leaving a couple of elevated road supports as a reminder of a past mistake.
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