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Old Posted Feb 14, 2014, 7:58 PM
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Originally Posted by gfspeople View Post
I hope they re-landscape the on ramp for the Vine Street Expy directly to the east of the Mormon Tower, because right now both the uncapped Expy and the on ramp seem to suck away any cohesion this tower would provide to that area. Perhaps they could put a sculpture where the two loops split, or make the grassy area into a park separated from the highway. I think if this is successfully done, we could see North Broad making leaps and bounds in next 5 years.
It's pretty remarkable (in a shitty way) that that entrance was built as a clover-style highway entrance rather than the "parallel service road" type of highway entrance (e.g., Vine St to 676 E). Crazy to have that right in the heart of the city - you can see from the pictures how much space it wastes, an entire city block.