April 2006 Archives

This is hopefully a good thing. Now they can't say that we're going to stop the project before it gets started. If this money goes towards the upriver bridge, our vision will take a major step forward. Conversely, if the money is spent designing an expanded Spaghetti Junction, our job will get much more difficult. Stay tuned, we feel a major letter writing campaign coming on.

Last week's C-J article announced that the Bridges Project plans to remove the 3^rd Street ramp. YES! Everyone who loves the 9^th Street ramp, raise your hand. That's what we thought. The 9^th Street ramp does provide access to downtown, but is it worth widening I-64 over the Great Lawn by 50% to 225 feet? And another thing, why aren't the pro-Bridges folks screaming about how removing the 3^rd Street ramp will create GRIDLOCK? Because it won't, and neither will removing the waterfront expressway.