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Old Posted Sep 28, 2017, 3:20 PM
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Originally Posted by k1052 View Post
I'm pretty confidant the city would agree to basically any streetscape improvements Amazon requested here short of burying the highway.
They could easily put up big, curved, architectural barriers to either side of the expressway starting at Jefferson, and do the same underneath the overpasses. That would go a long way toward making the expressway "disappear" from the surrounding neighborhood from a pedestrian perspective.
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