Hartford Public Library, Tueday, april 15th. 6pm to 8pm. in the X room.
With the Connecticut Department of Transportation currently considering options for the I-84 highway viaduct that stretches through Hartford, come hear about the success that Milwaukee had in removing its highway and how Hartford can learn from this success. Speaker: John O. Norquist, former Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and currently President & CEO of Congress for the New Urbanism.
above copied and pasted from the HPL website.
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Can I get a quote?
Yessss you can!
"Come hear about the success that Milwaukee had in removing its highway."
That's freakin' great! Its sounds like it was a tumor or something, prolly cuz it is. i84 twists and turns dangerously as it snakes through the city cutting it in half like a dirty, smoggy knife. I am all for rerouting the interstate through existing highways and removing the tumor that is the Aetna Viaduct. The area would now finally have a much-needed major East-West greenway corridor from East Hartford to Farmington. Ride to EMS or Westfarms from downtown Hartford almost all the way on a car-free greenway. Yes!
Even if I wasn't interested in the possibility of removing car induced tumors, I’d attend solely because I want to see the X room. The X room! Is it experimental? Revolutionary? I will report back.
Monday, April 14, 2008
How to get i84 the hell outta hartford!?!?!?
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I wholeheartedly agree. Big elevated highways do nothing but bad stuff to cities - just look at the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: Were it not for that ugly monstrosity, Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood might still have a thriving Norwegian community. (Really!) But as a former long-time Boston resident let me sound a note of caution: There are good ways to get rid of highways, and very very bad ways to get rid of highways.
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