Forested Overpasses Allow Animals to Cross Safely Over Highways

Re:Forested Overpasses Allow Animals to Cross Safely Over Hi... by Retric on Friday September 25, 2015 @03:12PM (#10280087)

Baltimore has an interesting network of outdoor walkways above street level connecting the inner harbor, convention center, and a few nearby buildings. I have long thought a city could do this for a much larger part of downtown at reasonable expense.

Crystal city VA on the other hand has an underground mall covering well over a mile including a subway stop. The upside is weather becomes irrelevant, but the downside it's a winding path making the surface faster and presumably it costs much more to build and maintain.

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Re:Forested Overpasses Allow Animals to Cross Safely Over Hi... by jamespitts on Friday September 25, 2015 @03:22PM (#10280144)

I'll have to check those out when I go to the area in the future.

In SF there are a few spots where active use occurs underneath freeways. Also, in Taipei I saw a huge marketplace for jade and for flowers underneath freeways.

Freeways cause so many ill social and economic effects on neighborhoods, billions are wasted every year in the big cities on dead space. There should be a huge investment toward restoring the urban fabric and bringing out the full value of neighborhoods around these structures.

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Re:Forested Overpasses Allow Animals to Cross Safely Over Hi... by scott_s on Friday September 25, 2015 @06:04PM (#10280994)

Minneapolis does this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System

I was there in early fall, when it wasn't cold enough to make a difference, but we went through them for the novelty. Every time we emerged on the street, we were terribly disoriented.

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