Must increase the cost of the projects, surely.
Sort of like extending bus routes from the inner city to the suburban malls. How did that work out?
I’ll just bet that instead of sensible intersections and stop lights, they’ll have those #*@&# traffic circles.
Cover the roads with giant homeless camps - call them wildlife parks
Dallas began building deck parks when local officials realized that its paucity of green space was hurting the city’s competitiveness with businesses, Abtahi said. Klyde Warren Park, now run by a foundation, includes a performance space, a children’s park, a restaurant and a dog run.
Property values around the park have shot up, bringing higher property tax revenue for the city. Office rents in nearby towers have risen by a third since the park opened. New development brought 7,000 more workers to downtown and 1,500 new apartments.
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Wiki says about half the cost of the park was paid by private donations.
The Pew Charitable Trusts funds ultra left projects, issues false reports on serious subjects, distorts where it can and leaves out much as possible in order to make the world a better place for socialism.
Here in Phoenix the park built over I-10 became a good place to buy drugs and a nice spot for bums to sleep.
Syracuse, NY is considering this as well. The I-81 overpass which cuts the city in two is crumbling and will need to be taken down. There are three alternatives under consideration- replacing the overpass with a new one that will require the destruction of numerous offices and other buildings near the highway to create shoulders that the current highway lacks, not replacing it at all and diverting traffic to an existing beltway around the city or going underground. Since the third alternative is by far the most expensive I suspect it will be chosen.
Limiting forever the ability to expand.
In connection with the "The Big Dig" Barney Fag...sorry,Barney Frank...uttered the only words with which I've ever agreed.He said,in connection with the cost,"it would be cheaper to raise the city than to lower the highway".
Why doesn’t everyone just switch jobs with the people going the other way on the highway.
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.
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.
Just use the right epoxy.
Love,
the Big Dig
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.