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It’s still amazing to me how much things cost. $11m to change a five lane death-trap looking american highway into a revenue generating tree+lined avenue cum public park.
Perhaps that’s considered cheap but either way this experiment seems to be a winner. Roll it out across the surface of the planet quick!
Obligatory (?) historical reading to parallel that article on Piccadilly stock over the years ….
“Tube Trains Under London” – J Graeme Bruce, LT, 1968
&
“Rails through the Clay” – Croome & Jackson, Capital Transport, 1993
The video on conversion of a busy road into a public space presents an excellent solution to the problem of public realm failure. James Kunstler gave it a consistent overview in his 2004 TED talk “How bad architecture wrecked cities”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ