How to Remove a Highway

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Highways are a blight on the urban landscape and are difficult to tear down. But there are some factors that can make a highway easier to tear down, and that's what this video is all about.

Resources on this topic:

Freeways Without Futures: https://www.cnu.org/our-projects/highways-boulevards/freeways-without-futures
How Highway Removal Is Changing Our Cities: https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/2020-03-deconstruction-ahead-urban-highway-removal-changing-cities
The Economic Case for Removing Highways: https://smartgrowthamerica.org/five-cities-argue-the-economic-case-to-tear-down-a-highway/
Rochester Inner Loop North project: https://www.innerloopnorth.com/about
I-81 Syracuse project: https://webapps.dot.ny.gov/i-81-viaduct-project-overview
I-81: https://www.syracuse.com/news/2023/07/new-york-starts-225-billion-interstate-81-rebuild-despite-court-challenges.html
I-81: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/nyregion/syracuse-interstate-81.html
Buffalo Skyway: https://www.wivb.com/news/higgins-kennedy-put-the-brakes-on-tearing-down-the-skyway/
My favorite graph: https://www.sightline.org/2011/07/13/wsdot-vs-reality/
Claiborne Avenue Alliance: https://www.claiborneavenuealliance.com
Restoring Our Community Coalition Buffalo: https://roccbuffalo.org
Connect Oakland: http://www.connectoakland.org/about/vision-2/
Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.
Written by Dave Amos.
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