From Dallas, creative thinking about the Interstate 30 project

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Leslie Peacock has already written to debunk the Arkansas HIghway Department's notion that unending freeway building has been the salvation of Dallas. In fact, they are moving away from freeways and considering broader solutions to community, not just merely moving traffic rapidly.

I have more food for thought today from Dallas, courtesy of a Little Rock native who is an urban planning professional.

Amazing! Someone with ideas beyond more lanes of concrete. Read on:

1) One idea looks at creating a series of essentially non-negotiable frameworks that the design would have to ensure. These include no new right-of-way taken, a reduced footprint anywhere possible (especially on on-off ramps) to gain developable (taxable) land, and the construction of increased connectivity across the freeway through more bridges. The more negotiable but ideal solutions would include: a trenched design that allows for the entire city grid to extend across the top of the freeway, a deck park (similar to Klyde Warren Park in Dallas) on top of the freeway between 6th and 9th Streets, and a design to enable streetcar use/ expansion across freeway.

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