Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Highway Removal

Tear Down These 10 Freeways! (And Then Tear Down Some More)

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 13, 2014 | No Comments

New Orleans’ Claiborne Expressway is ripe for demolition. Photo: CNU Freeway teardowns are no longer as rare as an earthquake during the World Series. The Congress for the New Urbanism is back with its annual Freeways Without Futures list — the 10 highways most likely to be history in a few years. This year, the […]

A Highway Teardown Appears Likely, In an Unlikely Place

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 22, 2013 | No Comments

As the nation prepares for the expansion of the Panama Canal and all port cities go crazy deepening and widening everything in sight, the second biggest biggest port in the country is doing something unexpected: planning a highway teardown. The LA Times reported this week that Long Beach officials are studying the possibility of replacing […]

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Bicycle Anecdotes From Amsterdam

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 24, 2013 | No Comments

Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Here we present our final — and most informative — Streetfilm from Amsterdam. It provides a nice cross-section of commentary on life in the City of Bikes. Make sure you check out our other Streetfilms from Amsterdam: No Amsterdam is Not “Swamped” By Bikes, Amsterdam Draws Bike […]