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Urbanism

Once Again, Tear Down Interstate 30

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In May, I wrote about I-30 and its destructive effect in splitting East Dallas and consigning Fair Park to South Dallas.  A number of commenters here and in other places said I should add U.S. 175 to the list for how it split and destroyed South Dallas. (Once again, TxDot is our city’s worst enemy, proposing a solution to its earlier disaster that, in keeping with its usual thinking, is no solution at all.)

We’re not the only city that suffered from the crazy highway-building frenzy of the 1960s that turned neighborhoods into slums. Here’s a blog post from Timothy Lee on “Freeways and the Decline of St. Louis.”

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