I've said it before, but I'm glad those highways near downtown didn't get built. Other cities are now trying to find ways (and money) to bury those freeways so they can open up that land again and reconnect neighborhoods that were cutoff from the rest of the city. People up north scratch their heads about the huge flyovers on our freeways in Texas, but I cringe less over them than I do the awful elevated highways alongside waterways and downtowns like what they have up north. If those highways near downtown had been built, that's probably what we would have gotten. And every city I've seen that has its downtown surrounded with highways has a dead downtown. Name any city in that situation, and its downtown is but a shadow of its former self.
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