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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 4522805, member: 1644"]
Great write up today by Michelle Breidenbach

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.syracuse.com/news/2023/01/why-an-i-81-skyway-would-be-costly-and-unworkable-who-wants-to-live-under-a-70-foot-bridge.html[/URL]

"The group Renew 81 for All wants the state to build an enormous bridge that would keep high-speed traffic flowing over the city without dropping to street level. They call it a “skyway” and want to name it after the abolitionist Harriet Tubman – even though it would cast a shadow over the Black community.

Yes, it could technically be built, experts say reluctantly. But why would anyone build such a thing?

There is nothing like it in America, experts say.

That’s because construction of a skyway over land would cost too much, take too long and knock down up to 40 functioning buildings, some of them historic landmarks. The owners of those buildings, and others that would be dwarfed by a monster bridge, would sue the state and complain the project kills any chance of economic development.

[B]Once built, a skyway over snowy Syracuse would drop ice bombs on cars and people below."[/B]
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