SAN ANTONIO │ Official Hemisfair Redevelopment Thread

[bosshaa5]

Originally Posted by ILUVSAT

Sinking and capping 37 would cost billions and I'm not sure from where that is going to come - since a project like that would easily garner arguments that it is more about aesthetics than necessity.

Why even bury and cap it. Just get rid of it. Boulevardification...create a thoroughfare. Other cities have done this and the return on investment is ridiculous.

I37 should terminus at 410 in SE SA.

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Originally Posted by bosshaa5

Why even bury and cap it. Just get rid of it. Boulevardification...create a thoroughfare. Other cities have done this and the return on investment is ridiculous.

I37 should terminus at 410 in SE SA.

[Keep-SA-Lame]

Originally Posted by bosshaa5

Why even bury and cap it. Just get rid of it. Boulevardification...create a thoroughfare. Other cities have done this and the return on investment is ridiculous.

I37 should terminus at 410 in SE SA.

Bingo. There is no reason for any of the highways to go all the way downtown, let alone create a girdling loop around the entire urban core. Even if you accept urban freeways as necessary, we could easily dispense with at least I37/281. These freeway burying projects are INSANELY expensive, the money is better spent on transit.

[jaga185]

Originally Posted by Keep-SA-Lame

Bingo. There is no reason for any of the highways to go all the way downtown, let alone create a girdling loop around the entire urban core. Even if you accept urban freeways as necessary, we could easily dispense with at least I37/281. These freeway burying projects are INSANELY expensive, the money is better spent on transit.

I've always felt we could at least have 281 terminated at Hildebrand. It would allow the Zoo to have more land and create and much better connective space with just a boulevard there. 37/281 could re-emerge as a highway at 90 to keep costs down.

[Keep-SA-Lame]

Originally Posted by jaga185

I've always felt we could at least have 281 terminated at Hildebrand. It would allow the Zoo to have more land and create and much better connective space with just a boulevard there. 37/281 could re-emerge as a highway at 90 to keep costs down.

I'd say Basse but yeah, agreed.

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Originally Posted by Keep-SA-Lame

I'd say Basse but yeah, agreed.

Might as well keep it over the Olmos Basin floodplain, behind the dam.

[SpiritofSeguin]

Back to topic...Phase Two construction is humming along.