Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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