Quote Originally Posted by MicrosoftFan View Post
Parkways... I hadn't thought of that. Most of the neighborhoods that surround our expressway corridors are abandoned anyway, so why not widen the freeways and stick parks around them like in Queens?
Actually, I think the freeways can be narrowed. Expansion costs more money, both up-front and in the long-term [[Remember--MDOT doesn't even have money to maintain the existing road network.). Expansion would also result in scads of $$$ for additional earth movement and create an uglier, more disconnected environment. There's no reason [[MDOT's plug-and-chug formulas be damned) why you couldn't have a network of parkways with 2-3 lanes max. in each direction. I don't think "parks", per se, are the answer--there would be a whole hell of a lot of dead-space parks that would go unused--but rather, re-forested areas along the corridors.