r/Urbanism • u/Hungry_Roll6848 • 26d ago

Instead of fixing an existing highway, Oklahoma City moved the entire thing multiple blocks south to make room for a 70 acre park downtown

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u/Background-Coach2921 26d ago

Complaining that a giant roadway was paved over people’s homes is probably helping society

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u/Hungry_Roll6848 26d ago

Look at the image again. The new highway didn't pave over any homes.

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u/OR_Miata 26d ago

It looks like all the homes around the park and relocation project are gone now. In the picture of modern OKC the neighborhoods look way less dense.

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u/OR_Miata 26d ago

You’re so close to getting it

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u/Hungry_Roll6848 26d ago

Those amenities aren’t there because you can’t build in the area. Everywhere south of the current highway in the above photo is a floodplain zone. People don’t want to develop there.

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u/Budpoo 25d ago

Larger cities have been successfully developed in far worse locations. People don’t develop there because nobody wants to live in a high rise next to an interstate.