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Originally Posted by Trae
Chicago already has quite a bit of expressways on every side of town that's already done what you're talking about.
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the only one that egregiously bad is the dan ryan which runs straight through the southside, much of it in a 3/4/4/3 lane arrangement down to the skyway interchange where it becomes a 5/5. the skyway itself is mostly a 3/3. the dan ryan then splits into the bishop ford and I-57 on the far southside, both of those being 3/3.
as mentioned earlier, the eisenhower is mostly 4/4 except for that 5 mile stretch of 3/3 that they're planning to upgrade to a 3/1/1/3.
the stevenson is mostly a 3/3 and they wisely ran it through through the sanitary and ship canal industrial corridor, so it was the least destructive from an urbanism perspective.
the kennedy is mostly a 4/2/4 from downtown (where it's 5/5) up to the junction where it becomes a a 3/3 and splits with the edens, also a 3/3.
and LSD is mostly a 4/4, although it's not a full expressway as it has 7 signaled intersections through downtown.
and all of those where built back in the bad old days of the 50s/60s. we haven't eminent-domained for expressway construction/expansion in this city for decades.