Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

City Council Gets on Board With Overhauling the Sheridan. Will Cuomo?

By Stephen Miller | Mar 25, 2014 | 4 Comments

After nearly two decades of advocacy and planning to transform the Sheridan Expressway, South Bronx residents and businesses have a plan they agree on. The next step: Governor Cuomo’s State DOT must launch an environmental review to begin implementing the plan. The State Senate included $3 million for the review in its budget proposal [PDF]. […]

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Tear Down These 10 Freeways! (And Then Tear Down Some More)

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 13, 2014 | No Comments

Freeway teardowns are no longer as rare as an earthquake during the World Series. The Congress for the New Urbanism is back with its annual Freeways Without Futures list — the 10 highways most likely to be history in a few years. This year, the organization is also recognizing five other campaigns to watch, plus […]

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Dallas Official: Without a Highway Teardown, Park Gets “Free Shade”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 4, 2014 | No Comments

Getting officials on board with a highway teardown in Dallas is no easy task. Just ask Patrick Kennedy, a Dallas planner who has led the charge to remove IH-345, an elevated stump of a highway near central Dallas. Last week, the Texas Department of Transportation dismissed the teardown proposal out of hand, refusing to even […]

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Will the Feds Support Rochester’s Downtown Highway Teardown?

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 29, 2013 | No Comments

It’s been called a “noose around the neck of downtown.” The Inner Loop in Rochester, New York — a regrettable 1960s-era sunken highway — completely encircles the city’s downtown, forming a wall between residential neighborhoods and the central business district. The road is unsightly and impassable on foot, a huge barrier to walkability. And it […]

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Highway Revolts Break Out Across the Midwest

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 28, 2013 | No Comments

The evolution of state and regional transportation agencies is painfully slow in places like Missouri and Ohio, where officials are plowing ahead with pricey highway projects conceived of decades ago. But plenty of Midwesterners have different ideas for the future of their communities, and they aren’t shy about speaking up. One after another, residents of […]

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St. Louis Punts on Highway Teardown, for Now

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 27, 2013 | No Comments

For three years, grassroots advocates in St. Louis have been pressing for the removal of elevated portions of I-70 through downtown. This group of urbanists and architects, with little to no financial support, came together to make the case for highway removal. Calling themselves City to River, the group built a website and a nonprofit […]

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