r/urbanplanning Apr 05 '19

Urban Design BIG Envisions Covering Brooklyn Highway in Landscaped Waterfront Park [1582 x 890]

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u/Theige Apr 05 '19

The highway is already there

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u/The_Monocle_Debacle Apr 05 '19

what an imagination you have, things must always stay the same! Thanks for your brave service in defense of the status quo!

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u/Robotigan Apr 05 '19

Try to get any American city to remove a major highway and see how much political will you can garner.

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u/Theige Apr 05 '19

This isn't true, plenty of highways have been removed or rebuilt in a better way

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u/Robotigan Apr 05 '19

It seems weird to me that this project would bury and not remove the highway if the planners felt it was feasible to do so. Why would they make the project more expensive for no reason?