Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Downtown St. Louis / Downtown Hartford

In the 1960s, Hartford, Conneticut looked like this,


Now it looks like this,


Interstate highways were added and parking lots grew like a cancer.



St. Louis used to be quite dense, full of low-rise buildings throughout downtown.  Here it is in 1958,


then in 1971,


Who set off the parking bomb?

St. Louis does not need an interstate cutting off its downtown from the river that created it.  It doesn't need surface parking lots either.

Support City to River and let's get I-70 out of downtown.

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