Unused highway - Wikipedia
In 2015, demolition of the unused bridge began. An unused highway is a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed, but went unused or was later closed or part of a future expansion.
The ghosts of L.A.'s unbuilt freeways — a wide median here, a
Jun 7, 2022 · Urban archeologists millennia hence may be puzzled by an orphan stub of it, relic of the abandoned Pasadena part of the 710, that takes a driver off the eastbound 134 Freeway a swift fraction...
The ghosts of L.A.’s unbuilt freeways - Los Angeles Times
Jun 7, 2022 · To the roll-call of only partly built freeways — the Glendale Freeway, the Slauson/Nixon/Marina Freeway — you can add the Long Beach Freeway. Just last month, the county’s transportation...
Abandoned Freeways - AARoads
May 11, 2009 · An important abandoned freeway would have to be Long Island Motor Parkway. It was one of the first roads in the world to show modern freeway-like characteristics, but it eventually went by the wayside after design advances by Robert Moses and his parkways made the road obsolete.
60 years after being taken for abandoned L.A. freeway, homes
Dec 4, 2021 · Six decades after California transportation officials began seizing hundreds of properties for a freeway project that never came, Los Angeles leaders have unveiled a proposal to replace the...
America’s Lost Highways Are Beautiful Monuments To Our …
Jan 5, 2024 · From crumbling ruins to roads surrounded by ghost towns, here's what happens when a highway is abandoned. It’s hard to overestimate just what a game changer the 1957 Interstate Highway Act was...
Abandoned Freeway Stub on State Route 163 - Atlas Obscura
Nov 9, 2016 · In the 1960s, San Diego proposed to expand what is now known as State Route 163, the Cabrillo Freeway, through Balboa Park to an 8- to 10-lane freeway. Public protest stopped the freeway from ...
60 years after being taken for abandoned L.A. freeway, homes …
Dec 4, 2021 · Six decades after California transportation officials began seizing hundreds of properties for a freeway project that never came, Los Angeles leaders have unveiled a proposal to replace the...
Highway revolts in the United States - Wikipedia
Highway revolts have occurred in cities and regions across the United States. In many cities, there remain unused highways, abruptly terminating freeway alignments, and short stretches of freeway in the middle of nowhere, all of which are evidence …
60 years after being taken for abandoned LA freeway, homes …
60 years after being taken for abandoned LA freeway, homes may get a new life Dec 10, 2021 News In collaboration with Council District 14, Gruen Associates and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI) engaged the community to develop an urban strategy for the use of these Caltrans properties that is compatible with the existing ...