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The historic houses (and they WERE glorious) that sat in the path of I-10 in Phoenix were cleared in 1964, about 25 years before the actual penetration of the freeway into downtown. Deck Park is underutilized but it's still wonderful to have an amenity of that kind if only because it serves to knit together the fragments of Phoenix's urban tissue. Yes, it was very expensive, but the federal govenment paid for most it, about a week's worth of expenditures for the FUBAR in Iraq.

The only complaint I would have about Tucson's project is that it apparently is much smaller than Deck Park, which is a half mile in length. By contrast, Tucson's is only 800 feet and would feel more like a lily pad than a pond.