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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2031290, member: 405"]
It's all Congel money.  They want to keep 81 going through the city so it's easy for people south of the City to get to the mall.

A tunnel is a terrible choice.  It's going to be very costly to maintain and it's going to require a lot of infrastructure that's going to turn that stretch of the North Side into something even worse than it is right now.

Rochester used to have a tunnel around their downtown, and they recently filled it in and returned it to city streets.  Getting rid of the elevated highway will improve the value of a lot of unused land downtown.

And to keep the elevated highway through downtown, we are going to have to widen it and make the lane transitions much safer.  It's going to require tearing down something like 27 additional buildings downtown to make it feasible.

You HAVE to let 81 northbound run to a point a little north of Brighton Ave, and then go down to street level about a quarter mile from Adams St.  From there, it becomes local streets.

Southbound from north of the City, you terminate 81 South around the mall, where it is right now.  Through traffic will be routed on 481, and they should finally create a connection between 81 North and 690 West that loops around Onondaga Hill toward Fairmount.
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