They'd have done much better to just do away with the idea of a highway altogether and opt for a MUCH less costly boulevard in the manner of San Francisco's Embarcadero. It's baffling that, despite all the science and evidence to the contrary, we still insist on building or maintaining urban expressways for the sake of throughput capacity at the cost of billions and billions of taxpayer dollars.
That said, it is true that the simple fact that the highway is no longer the open wound that it once was is a HUGE improvement. It's just an inefficient use of resources.
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