6 Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever

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We will continue to spend on more and bigger roads, following the outdated and negative example of LA.  It doesn't work, you don't ever win that game. 

More and bigger roads only moves the traffic jam unless there is an efficient way to collect and disperse that traffic at both ends.  It never happens.

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With the history we have with road contractors in this area, would you really want to drive underneath concrete put down by the lowest bidder?
Think Becco....

Contractors may not be the only problem.  ODOT may be using outdated or inferior materials specs which ultimately requires contractors to build inferior roads.

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That would immediately make it more appealing to development.  The first place I would focus would be on Main St moving north past Cain's.  Concert goers already park on the grass lots to the north of the IDL for shows at Cain's but the underpass can be downright scary late in the evening.  If only OSU would give up some of their land in that area and allow Brady to move North...

Seems like I remember seeing in a magazine a city that had the same problem and lot up each underpass with different lights and had different public art pieces in each.  We could do that.  

EDIT: it is in Birmingham, AL, by an artist called Lightrails
http://waveavenue.com/profiles/blogs/enchanting-alabama-underpass-filled-with-led-rainbow-lights

OSU should absolutely relinquish some of their land, everything west of MLK.  They would still have tons of land to expand the campus, especially if they could then acquire the public housing to the north and tear it down in a land swap.  Or actually put forth a proposal to build urban student housing on their empty lots along Main and Boston.