Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

Oklahoma City Council Fends Off Highway-Like Highway Replacement

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 1, 2012 | No Comments

When Oklahoma City announced plans in 1998 to tear down the I-40 Crosstown Expressway near downtown, they envisioned a grand, tree-lined, at-grade boulevard that would help improve development prospects in the already resurgent “Core to Shore” area between downtown and the Oklahoma River. The route would be part of the planned five-mile streetcar corridor, buttressed by […]

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When Livability Projects Meet Eisenhower-Era Design Standards

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 25, 2012 | No Comments

Tearing down highways, as New Haven, Connecticut is planning to do to a short section of Route 34, is a rare (though increasingly sought after) outcome in American transportation policy. Some highway removals are unintended consequences of neglect or disaster, like the collapse of New York’s Miller Highway and the damage caused to San Francisco’s […]

With Teardown Off Table, Residents March Out of Sheridan Meeting in Protest

By Noah Kazis | Jun 29, 2012 | 3 Comments

“I say my people! I got a story! We tell the TIGER team that this is our territory!” Cheers supporting the removal of the Sheridan expressway rang out during a mile-long march from Hunts Point to a community meeting last night about the future of the Robert Moses-era highway, as roughly forty protestors chanted, clapped […]

You Can Drive a Truck Through the Gaps in City’s Refusal to Remove Sheridan

By Stephen Miller | Jun 28, 2012 | 17 Comments

Last month, the Bloomberg administration unexpectedly ruled out the option of removing the Sheridan Expressway and replacing it with housing and parks, telling South Bronx advocates that added truck traffic projected for local streets was a “fatal flaw” in the highway teardown. After a closer look at that truck traffic analysis, however, the coalition calling […]

City Abruptly Rejects Sheridan Teardown; Serrano and Advocates Fight Back

By Ben Fried | Jun 8, 2012 | 28 Comments

The Bloomberg administration has abruptly ruled out the possibility of tearing down the lightly-trafficked Sheridan Expressway and replacing it with mixed-use development, jobs, and parks. Neighborhood advocates and electeds are vowing to fight the decision, which they say fails to follow through on the comprehensive analysis the city promised to conduct as part of a […]

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Advocates Defend New Haven’s “Downtown Crossing” Highway Removal Plan

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 29, 2012 | No Comments

Earlier this week we ran a story about why local livable streets advocates with the New Haven Urban Design League are disappointed with the city’s decision to replace a section of grade-separated highway with a plan that remains, on balance, car-centric. We soon heard from teardown proponents who remain supportive of the project. While acknowledging its shortcomings, […]

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