Boulevards

NPR Reports On Freeway Conversion Movement

WCPN reporter interviews a commuter who is annoyed by a plan to make her commute longer - but it becomes clear that the suburbanite's faster commute is at the expense of an urban neighborhood.

23 March 2011 - 5:00am

NPR

New Orleans Debates Highway Removal

New Orleans will have to do something about its Claiborne Avenue Expressway in the coming decade, because after more than 40 years of service, it has seen better days and needs renovation.

6 September 2010 - 9:00am

Next American City

Advocates Push for Tearing Down Freeway Through Olmsted Corridor

Buffalo's Kensington Expressway cut the Humbolt Parkway neighborhood and its Frederick Law Olmsted-designed corridor in half in 1958. Activists are pushing the state to consider tearing it down and replacing it with a pedestrian-friendly boulevard.

5 May 2010 - 8:00am

Buffalo News

Octavia Boulevard — Central Freeway Replacement Project

Built in 1959, San Francisco's Central Freeway, a 1.2-mile, double-deck structure, divided area neighborhoods. The Central Freeway Replacement Project began in March 2003 with the demolition of the existing Central Freeway structure. The Department of Public Works designed and constructed the new Octavia Boulevard, which carries traffic that once traveled on the elevated double-decked freeway structure. The new boulevard reopened in September 2005. Today, the boulevard's central lanes allow commuters to access streets leading to and from the city's western neighborhoods, while the outer edge of the boulevard has a single lane in each direction for local traffic.

5 March 2010 - 9:52am

Support Builds For Highway Removal in Saint Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board formally endorses the removal of elevated and depressed lanes of current I-70 ROW to reconnect city and arch grounds.

3 March 2010 - 10:00am

St. Louis Post Dispatch

When A Road Is More Than Just A Road

Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway is one of America’s most 'elegant' roads. Designed by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to replicate the grand European Boulevards; opened in 1876, it was designated a landmark by NYC 100 years later

13 October 2008 - 12:00pm

The New York Times

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