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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 312463, member: 27"] I don't think it is going to make a big difference. A big highway, unless it is built literally put under ground as a tunnel, is going to disrupt a neighborhood in a major way. I think having it sunken below street level makes it somewhat less of a visual blight, reduces the noise somewhat and (most importantly for me) reduces maintenance costs/downtime and increases safety. Elevated highways are much more suspectible to freezing/black ice, and with the weather in CNY, much more suspectible to erosion, potholes, serious salt/water damage in a very short amount of time. IMHO, I-81 through downtown Syracuse should have been built as a sunken highway from day one. I wonder if one of the reasons it was not was because of what happened with the railroads in Syracuse years past? Syracuse was a national laughingstock because it was one of the last major cities that had major rail lines going through it still running at the street level. This disrupted trafffic in the city for many years. I don't think it was addressed until the 1930s. The elevated tracks ran East-West and were only used for a couple of decades before they were replaced and used as the right of way for Interstate 690 through Syracuse. [URL='http://syracusefan.com/wiki/File:SteamEngineSyracuseNewYork.JPG'][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/SteamEngineSyracuseNewYork.JPG/300px-SteamEngineSyracuseNewYork.JPG[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://syracusefan.com/wiki/File:Syracuse_1900_empire-state-express.jpg'][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Syracuse_1900_empire-state-express.jpg/300px-Syracuse_1900_empire-state-express.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Maybe a bad decision made long ago will finally be addressed. That rarely happens, but I suppose it is possible. [/QUOTE]

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