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jstreim t1_iu8n6qr wrote

Reply to comment by backfi in Now is our chance to fix Baltimore’s ‘Highway to Nowhere’ by GovernorOfReddit

The history of I-83 is an interesting one. While removing the elevated portion of the road from chase to Fayette street would spur development along Fallsway, construction of the JFX largely caused condemnation of industrial buildings and heavy polluters along the Jones falls viaduct. The I-170 segment in west Baltimore was way more egregious in its condemnation of homes and destruction of a residential neighborhood.

That being said, I think the highway to nowhere would be better suited as a high capacity transit corridor, and freeway removal money would be well spent tearing down the jfx from chase st to Fayette and capping the portion of the freeway near Penn Station. That would spur development of the penn-fallsway parking lot and help stitch together the station north and my Vernon neighborhoods.

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DfcukinLite t1_iuazq4p wrote

Mount Vernon and station north are stitched together. 83 doesn’t impact those neighborhoods.

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jstreim t1_iub1bqe wrote

Stitched together by what? A gulf of railroad tracks and an interstate? Just because you have a few streets that connect them doesn’t mean they aren’t separated. 83 definitely affects them, and connecting the two would make both neighborhoods more accessible to each other

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DfcukinLite t1_iub1oxq wrote

83 is west of those neighborhoods. 83 before the highway was just a river. You need to look at a neighborhood map. Station North was the Charles North neighborhood. It’s north of midtown-Belvedere/mount Vernon.

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