Government
What's Better Than Turning an Urban Highway Into a Park?
St. Louis will cover the highway that divides downtown from the waterfront. But some wish they'd removed the interstate altogether.
On Friday, a group of officials including new transportation secretary Anthony Foxx broke ground on a park being built over Interstate 70 in St. Louis — an effort not surprisingly called "Park over the Highway." The project's purpose is to overcome half a century of poor planning and reconnect the downtown area with the iconic Gateway Arch and the Mississippi River. If the completed job even partly approaches the beauty of the design renderings, it may well have been worth the wait:
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