Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Highway Removal

These 10 Urban Freeways Deserve To Be Demolished — But Will They?

By Kea Wilson | Apr 18, 2023 | No Comments

America is at a watershed moment in the fight to heal the harms of urban freeways that tore apart predominantly BIPOC and low-income communities, a new report argues — but what that healing will look like, exactly, is still an open question.

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Freeway Fighters List Their Top Five Needs For 2023

By Ben Crowther | Mar 6, 2023 | No Comments

What’s the pathway to ensure the groups on the frontlines of the freeway fighting movement successfully cross the finish line, and don’t have to wait years or decades to do so? Transportation for America and America Walks recently surveyed organizations fighting freeways all across the country to get a better sense of what they need to win, and the results are both inspiring and daunting.

The Original Scraper Bike Team's Reginald "RB" Burnette at Sunday's Flatlands Neighborhoods Ride. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick unless noted

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A Park too Far: Walk Oakland Bike Oakland Infrastructure Tour

By Roger Rudick | Apr 16, 2018 | 26 Comments

Before the freeway building age, West Oakland was actually the gateway for the entire Bay Area to the rest of the world.

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SoMa Freeway Ramp Mistake Fixed at Nearly Twice the Estimated Cost

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 22, 2015 | 18 Comments

SF agencies opened a newly re-aligned freeway ramp yesterday that lands on Fremont at Folsom Street. The ramp fix came in at a cost of $5,274,000, nearly twice the original estimate of $2,883,900. The design of the original Highway 80 off-ramp, installed after the removal of the Embarcadero Freeway to whisk drivers from the Bay […]

How Freeway Removal and Zero Parking Can Fend Off SF’s Triple Threat

By Jason Henderson | May 26, 2015 | 21 Comments

There is an urgent triumvirate of crises looming over San Franciscans. With median rents now exceeding $4,200, hyper-gentrification is tearing lives apart. Except for those surviving on rent control, the city is no longer welcoming to teachers, artists, and the entire middle class. Things are looking difficult in the East Bay, as speculators and realtors […]

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Freeways Without Futures: I-345 in Dallas

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 6, 2015 | No Comments

In this Streetfilm, Patrick Kennedy, founder of A New Dallas, talks about the movement to replace Interstate 345 in downtown Dallas with connected streets and walkable development. Shot at the “Freeways Without Futures” session at the Congress for New Urbanism’s recent conference in Dallas, the piece provides views of I-345 from heights most people never get to see. Kennedy was joined […]

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