OA5599_CO t1_iwrdoo7 wrote
It's the poor planning that ruin the city, not the highway. But often something has to go when putting a highway through a city. Highways have to go through the populated cities or else they would be useless. Left entrances and exits should be banned and anyone who approved a highway that way should have their pension revoked.
johnsonutah t1_iwrtz9z wrote
Bro you ever been to Manhattan? Notice how the highways go around the city instead of up the guy? It’s 101 to have highways go around cities or underground, and to preserve the waterfront at all costs.
The state fucked up urban planning big time and can’t afford to fix the problem because of pensions. Smh
Jenaxu t1_iwtlths wrote
Robert Moses actually came very close to running a freeway through lower Manhattan. Right through Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park, Soho... imagine trying to propose that with what we know now? They'd call for your head on a pike. It's a shame that so many other cities were 30-40 years too late to figure out how much damage this sort of infrastructure would do.
OA5599_CO t1_iwuh46u wrote
Bro, Manhattan isn't a city. New York City is the city and highways go through it.
johnsonutah t1_iwuzgf2 wrote
Lmao Manhattan would be considered a city if you picked it up and put it anywhere else in the world - it’s be a damn big one too. Obviously it’s a borough of NYC but cmon man, the highway systems in the other parts of NYC still do a better job of not carving up a city than the highways in CT!
dkdaniel t1_iwrj6ia wrote
The highway could have easily gone around Hartford, with exits leading into lower speed arterials going into downtown. Not to mention literally walling off Hartford from the waterfront, and burying the Park river.
ashcan_not_trashcan t1_iwroppr wrote
That was the original interstate system plan but then racism among other things changed that.
PrpleMnkyDshwsher t1_iws638j wrote
The park river was buried because it flooded major parts of Hartford every spring. Nothing to do with 84.
marxianthings OP t1_iwrov0y wrote
The root of the issues here is (1) racism, and (2) an almost religious commitment to cars.
Highways don't even have to exist, let alone have to go through a city!
unionqueen t1_iwv4isy wrote
So very true. I grew up outside of Boston and could get so many places by bus, train, subway. Now the traffic is horrific because everyone wants to drive
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