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Phoenix: Water scarcity and consistent heat-related crises (see: planes can't take off from the runway cause it's too hot, 2017) chase people away from the city and the area. Phoenix begins to bleed out en masse and is down to only 1.0 Million by 2050.
What is this mumbo jumbo? Are you seriously saying one day of heat-related issues at the airport is something bad? Lets count the number of weather-related delays at Sky Harbor vs delays at JFK. Go ahead. Ill say PHX's weather is, by far and away, the most consistent in the US. Heat rarely affects airliners, but your ice and snow sure does. Lets get real here, man.
How about neither. Complete removal will greatly benefit the city of Dallas. So much development potential that will finally create a continuous urban form from Downtown through Deep Ellum. Dallas would be foolish to maintain it. A lot of people don't realize that MANY Dallas city streets are UNDER-utilized. While traffic will be pretty bad in the beginning, it will eventually resolve itself in the long run. The city needs to continually expand public transit though.
Most of the drivers are trying to bypass Downtown. DFW has so many highways that were designed to bypass Downtown, so why should the city continue to be a doormat for suburbanites? Especially ones that don't work, live, or even play in the city. Seriously, why let them walk all over us? Plano is proud to be a place where its residents can work, live, and play without having to leave it. Good for them. Now Dallas can focus on the CITY and not the 'burbs who really don't need Dallas.
How about neither. Complete removal will greatly benefit the city of Dallas. So much development potential that will finally create a continuous urban form from Downtown through Deep Ellum. Dallas would be foolish to maintain it. A lot of people don't realize that MANY Dallas city streets are UNDER-utilized. While traffic will be pretty bad in the beginning, it will eventually resolve itself in the long run. The city needs to continually expand public transit though.
Most of the drivers are trying to bypass Downtown. DFW has so many highways that were designed to bypass Downtown, so why should the city continue to be a doormat for suburbanites? Especially ones that don't work, live, or even play in the city. Seriously, why let them walk all over us? Plano is proud to be a place where its residents can work, live, and play without having to leave it. Good for them. Now Dallas can focus on the CITY and not the 'burbs who really don't need Dallas.
I see truckers and people just going through the region, but why would suburbanites be wanting to bypass Downtown? I mean, I cannot think of anything of interest south of Downtown and not within the city limits of Dallas, unless a person lives there.
I see truckers and people just going through the region, but why would suburbanites be wanting to bypass Downtown? I mean, I cannot think of anything of interest south of Downtown and not within the city limits of Dallas, unless a person lives there.
Bypassing to go to Houston. I only brought that up due to a few vocal CD posters from up north who oppose such a teardown because it would slow down their time passing through Dallas. Despite the fact we have so many loops and alternatives. But yes you are right, there's not much interest south of Downtown in general. As far as local traffic, we don't utilize our city streets that much. Most of the people are crowding on a highway because they know it's there. Here's a nice read on it from 2014, even before the CityMAP study:
Stitching the Downtown & Deep Ellum grid together with a pedestrian friendly urban blvd. or pkwy would actually make things more efficient. I don't know if you've tried to drive from Uptown to Deep Ellum by using I-345 (or have had an Uber/Lyft driver use it), but it's not a pretty or efficient ride.
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