DigitalSciGuy
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Ah, the perennial subject... Yes, the Greenway is no doubt better than what it was before, but the highway underneath is at odds with it.
Even if you cover the onramp parcels with something like Jersey City's Embankment, the adjacent streets and feeder roads to the on-ramps are still pedestrian-hostile and completely out of scale. The street running along the Embankment is about as wide as Atlantic Avenue alone. I know of no downtown highway ramp treatments in any city that somehow also manage to not be utterly hostile to urban fabric just because they're inherently incompatible uses. We dun goofed and no lipstick on this pig is going to hide that.
The highway was and continues to be a mistake and the nail in the coffin is all the downtown on-/off-ramps that make it more time competitive to drive right into the heart of the city. The park is the nicest lipstick on an ugly transportation planning decision imposed on us by the last generation.
Even if you cover the onramp parcels with something like Jersey City's Embankment, the adjacent streets and feeder roads to the on-ramps are still pedestrian-hostile and completely out of scale. The street running along the Embankment is about as wide as Atlantic Avenue alone. I know of no downtown highway ramp treatments in any city that somehow also manage to not be utterly hostile to urban fabric just because they're inherently incompatible uses. We dun goofed and no lipstick on this pig is going to hide that.
The highway was and continues to be a mistake and the nail in the coffin is all the downtown on-/off-ramps that make it more time competitive to drive right into the heart of the city. The park is the nicest lipstick on an ugly transportation planning decision imposed on us by the last generation.