City starts planning to remove more of the Inner Loop

[ckhthankgod]

Here is a website with information about the Inner Loop North project: https://www.innerloopnorth.com/

Some interesting information about the eastern portion: https://www.cityofrochester.gov/arti...oop%20corridor.

[ckhthankgod]

Here is some information from The Urban Phoenix blog about the neighborhood formed from the infilling of the eastern portion of the Inner Loop from June of this year: https://theurbanphoenix.com/2023/06/...-neighborhood/

[JWRocks]

Reading about the Kensington issue in Buffalo reminds me of how Rochester lost our subway to an expressway. Hey Kathy Hockel, where's our billion?

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by JWRocks

Reading about the Kensington issue in Buffalo reminds me of how Rochester lost our subway to an expressway. Hey Kathy Hockel, where's our billion?

Well, the subway just used the space that once was occupied by the Erie Canal and the move to being automobile centric played a part in its decline. https://rocwiki.org/abandoned_subway

[JWRocks]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Well, the subway just used the space that once was occupied by the Erie Canal and the move to being automobile centric played a part in its decline. https://rocwiki.org/abandoned_subway

I 490 East was built in the subway bed. I believe also I 590 as well

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by JWRocks

I 490 East was built in the subway bed. I believe also I 590 as well

Yes, but the subway was built in the old Erie Canal bed, which goes back to the 1820's. So, it was a path that goes back well before the subway.

[JWRocks]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Yes, but the subway was built in the old Erie Canal bed, which goes back to the 1820's. So, it was a path that goes back well before the subway.

Yes, and why was it replaced with the expressway?

[JWRocks]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Well, the subway just used the space that once was occupied by the Erie Canal and the move to being automobile centric played a part in its decline. https://rocwiki.org/abandoned_subway

And your point?

Replaced by the car.....

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by JWRocks

And your point?

Replaced by the car.....

That it is different from the Kensington Parkway, that you referred to.

[leadfoot4]

Originally Posted by JWRocks

I 490 East was built in the subway bed. I believe also I 590 as well

I 590 (originally NY 47) ran north, up the east side of the city, through portions of both Brighton, in it's southern path, and Irondequoit, at it's northern end. To the best of my knowledge, the far northern path of 590, that being north of Norton Street, into Sea Breeze, the roadway followed the former Rochester-Sodus trolley bed.