Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

City Recommends Turning Sheridan Into Surface Road. Your Move, State DOT.

By Stephen Miller | Jun 26, 2013 | 4 Comments

Community activists in the South Bronx have been fighting a long time to remove the Sheridan Expressway, a short freeway that cuts off their neighborhoods from the Bronx River. After the state Department of Transportation rejected the teardown in 2010 and city agencies ruled it out again last year, advocates trimmed their sails and worked for the best option short […]

City Close to Recommending Surface Road Replacement for Sheridan

By Stephen Miller | May 23, 2013 | 13 Comments

The city is close to recommending that the Sheridan Expressway, a short, sparsely-used interstate that community activists have targeted for removal for years, be transformed into a street-level roadway that opens land for new development and improves neighborhood access to parks along the Bronx River. The news came Tuesday night at a public meeting attended by […]

Sheridan Alternatives Offer Hope for Surface Road in Place of Expressway

By Stephen Miller | Mar 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

While the city’s refusal to remove the Sheridan Expressway left South Bronx advocates frustrated, the fight to transform the under-used highway continues, with the city’s federally-funded planning study on track for completion in June. A presentation to community partners last week [PDF] shed new light on options the city is considering, offering some hope that the highway’s […]

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State Officials OK Niagara Falls Highway Teardown

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 26, 2013 | No Comments

Beginning at Niagara Falls State Park, you can hike around the great gorge carved out of the base of the falls over thousands of years. But you’d best arrive in a car. If you want to access this area from Niagara Falls neighborhoods on foot, you have to climb fences, scale embankments and race across […]

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SF Mayor’s Advisor: “Let’s Be San Francisco and Take Down the Freeway”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 14, 2013 | No Comments

The idea of removing the northern section of Highway 280 near Mission Bay in San Francisco is gaining more traction as planners look for ideal ways to usher in high-speed rail and transit-oriented development in the city’s core. At a forum held by the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association last Thursday, Mayor Ed Lee’s transportation […]

Deferred, Not Defeated: Sheridan Teardown Advocates Move Ahead

By Stephen Miller | Dec 6, 2012 | 5 Comments

In the wake of the city’s refusal to consider removing the Sheridan Expressway, advocates from the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance gathered last night at a town hall meeting to revise their game plan. Although the long-term vision of removing the highway lives on, the discussion focused on other potential improvements along the Sheridan corridor. “We started […]

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