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Cost Savings for Freeway Teardowns Replace, Prevent, Remove Prepared by: Edward W. Erfurt IV Urban Designer Town Planning and Design www.ErfurtDesign.com

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Cost Savings for Freeway Teardowns; Replace, Prevent, Remove America's twentieth century highway building era included freeways which cut huge swaths across our cities, decimating neighborhoods and reducing quality of life for city residents. This massive infrastructure investment had devastating effects on local economies. It blighted property and pushed access to basic amenities further out. Across the Country the Federal and State Departments of Transportation confronting shrinking budgets and cities looking for ways to increase their revenues, it is an ideal time to offer, alternatives to the reconstruction of expressways. The alternative to the highway will be discussed, showing the cost savings, improvement of mobility, and the ability to foster lasting redevelopment. Cases studies will illustrate how cities can maximize their transportation dollars while stabilizing neighborhoods.

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Cost Savings for Freeway Teardowns

Replace, Prevent, Remove

Prepared by:

Edward W. Erfurt IVUrban DesignerTown Planning and Design

www.ErfurtDesign.com

June 13, 2009

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FrameworkUnderstanding

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…The idea of systemic, long lasting,

transformative change.

…The idea of systemic, long lasting,

transformative change.

Suburban Retrofits reintroduce the components of urbanism that were either illegal, undesired, or

missing from much of suburbia.

Suburban Retrofits reintroduce the components of urbanism that were either illegal, undesired, or

missing from much of suburbia.

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Three Types of Freeway RemovalsThree Types of Freeway Removals

2. Remove

3. Prevent

1. Replace

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ReplacementTear Down Types

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• Fundamental Change in Design

• Change in Classification

• Maintenance or Ownership

• Functional Class

• Change in Priority

• Introduction of Transit

• New Community Vision

• Catastrophic Change

• Structural Failure

•Natural Disaster

Replacement

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South Military Highway

Chesapeake, Virginia

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Grade Separation without a Grade ChangeGrade Separation without a Grade Change

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Existing Street Network

Division

Powell

I - 2

05

82nd

Ave

.

92nd

Ave

.

Station Area Planning: Division Street Station, Powell Street Station:

Portland, OR

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Division

I-205

92nd

Ave

nue

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Division

I-205

92nd

Ave

nue

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Division Station

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Division Station

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River Front Parkway

Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Removal Tear Down Types

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• Completely Removing a Structure

• Evaporates the Traffic

• Removal or Consolidation of Ramps

• Abandonment of Right of Way

• Untangling a Confluence

• Increasing Access

Removal

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Cheonggyecheon

, Seoul, South Korea

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Same corridor after CSS

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PreventionTear Down Types

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• Paper Plans

• Waiting for Funding

• Need for Immediate Change

• Current Traffic Problems

• Safety Issues

• Required Maintenance

Prevention

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Prevention

Montrose Parkway

White Flint, Maryland

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Cost Savings for Freeway Teardowns

Replace, Prevent, Remove

Prepared by:

Edward W. Erfurt IVUrban DesignerTown Planning and Design

www.ErfurtDesign.com

June 13, 2009

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