Quotes About Expressways

I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large parks, campuses or waterfronts, the barrier effects can likely be overcome well only along portions of perimeters.

That year the Louisiana Highway Department hired New York's Robert Moses, the one whom everyone revered as the most progressive highway planner in the nation, to address New Orleans's traffic problems. Moses' solution was to ring the city with multilaned expressways that would bring automobiles and trucks to the city's core.

This flexibility meant that local political arrangements influenced the location of urban expressways, thus allowing engineers, truckers, or planners to remodel American cities.

Almost everywhere, the new urban expressways destroyed wide swaths of existing housing and dislocated people by the tens of thousands.