The Project for Public Spaces is expanding its Rightsizing Streets Guide:
We’re excited to share with you an interactive map featuring more than fifty successful rightsizing projects from around the US.
We’ve also added two new full case studies to the guide. The case studies, contributed by the Congress for the New Urbanism, both illustrate the benefits of the removal of urban freeways—rightsizing at a grand scale!
- In 2002, removal of the Park East Freeway in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opened up 26 acres of centrally-located land to redevelopment. The project increased property values by more than 45% in less than four years. The freeway was replaced by a new surface street, McKinley Avenue, and a restored city grid.
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- In 1992, a portion of San Francisco’s towering double-decked Central Freeway was replaced by the tree-lined Octavia Boulevard and a new public square. The boulevard safely provides space for bicyclists and pedestrians, while slowing traffic exiting the freeway and dispersing it onto the road network without gridlock. Since the conversion, property values have risen, transit trips are up 75%, and retail and restaurants have returned to the neighborhood.
By the way, what happened to the momentum to move forward on the Viaducts?
leave them alone only quick route out of downtown eastbound[connect to Malkin ave ungraded with no stoplights]grade separated to get traffic out of downtown quickly,.