Posted on 04/28/2018 1:04:22 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I've walked it several times and I think it's a great idea. Now many Freepers have this bias against any public money being spent on things that benefit pedestrians but I think it's money well spent. I think motor vehicles are great too but sometimes it's good to just get out in the fresh air and walk around the city without having to constantly make sure you don't get run over by cars.
Immensely.
If you aren't familiar with the huge cost and the mega cost over-runs on the Boston underground highway called the BIG-DIG just do a search.
These kinds of projects are like a perpetual motion machine fueled by taxpayer dollars.
Labor Unions and contractors make financial contributions to politicians.
Politicians reward them with projects like this.
How often do we see crews making roadways wider to add more lanes on ground level highways?
What happens when these underground highways need to be widened?
In the minds of government officials, there is no problem that the taxpayers' money won't fix.
The "Uptown" area used to be a Black neighborhood. Ethnic cleaning raised the property values and did away with the need for an expressway divider between the bulk of the area and downtown.
There are two remnants of the old neighborhood. First, a Black United Methodist Church about 7 blocks from a white United Methodist Church (and on the same side of expressway as the Arts District, so it missed being subject to urban renewal) and the portions of the old 'colored' cemetary that haven't been paved over with expressways and streets. (Freedmen's Cemetery, adjacent to the intact Jewish burial grounds).
As for the old 'colored' Booker T. Washington High School - it's now a magnet school to try to keep some whites in the DISD.
But that wouldn't do much for congestion, as the expressways at either end of Woodall Rogers are already well above capacity at rush hour. Adding lanes isn't going to increase throughput.
I would be concerned too, that the homeless and youth gangs and undesirables will take over these spaces.
There are plenty of examples of public parks in places such as Chicago, where decent people don’t go to the parks and green spaces, because the gangs are there. Drug dealing and God knows what else forces out decent people.
The same concept has happened with many shopping malls around the country. A bad element starts showing up, decent people/paying customers of the malls are afraid to go there, business declines, stores pull out of the mall — it’s a downward spiral.
Just use the right epoxy.
Love,
the Big Dig
What fresh air?
You build a park over a freeway or main arterial road where do you think the vehicle exhaust goes?
Vehicle exhaust is hot gas, hot gas is lighter than ambient air temps, it goes up.
Have a nice day while you suck on an exhaust pipe.
You sound like you would be fun at parties!
So deck parks are expensive at 400 million. But obama routiny gave away hundreds of billions of dollars. Why the amou t of money he gave SOUTH AFRICA alone cod build five hundred deck parks.
Just keeping it real.
Sounds like a great place for homosexual truck drivers to exchange loads.
Far short of an adequate incentive to get me to visit Chicago.
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