Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highway Removal

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 […]

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, […]

Instead of Reclaiming a Despised Highway, New Haven Plans a Close Replica

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 26, 2012 | No Comments

The “most defacing scar from the 1960’s Urban Renewal era” — that’s how local advocates describe the Route 34 Expressway through downtown New Haven. Just about a year and a half ago, this small New England city won a TIGER grant to heal that scar. But another disfiguration may be growing in its place. The […]

12 Freeways to Watch (‘Cause They Might Be Gone Soon)

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 6, 2012 | No Comments

If you make your home on the Louisiana coastline, upstate New York or the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, chances are you live near a highway that really has it coming. It’s big. It’s ugly. It goes right through city neighborhoods. And it just might be coming down soon. Latest week the Congress for New […]

Chuck Schumer on Niagara Falls Highway: “Tear Down This Road”

By Noah Kazis | Dec 13, 2011 | 7 Comments

Most members of Congress are excited to cut the ribbon for a new stretch of freeway, but it’s a smaller set indeed that will stand up for the removal of a highway, no matter how neighborhood-blighting. As of yesterday, count New York Senator Chuck Schumer among their number. “Right now, the Robert Moses Parkway stands […]

DCP’s Sheridan Teardown Analysis Based on More Than Just Traffic

By Noah Kazis | Nov 2, 2011 | 2 Comments

The Department of City Planning continues to display an openness to the possibility of tearing down the Sheridan Expressway. A slideshow prepared for a September public meeting, recently posted online, shows how the agency is applying a comprehensive approach to the question of what to do with the lightly-used, Robert Moses-era highway along the Bronx […]

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