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Unbuilt highway schemes — and the traces they left behind
Rendering of Robert Moses' dystopian-looking (and never realized) LOMEX Lower Manhattan Expressway proposal. Image: Paul Rudolph/Library of Congress.
The postwar passion for highway construction saw cities around the world carved up in the name of progress. But as communities fought back many schemes were abandoned – their half-built traces showing what might have been
— The Guardian
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The Marina Freeway was actually the Slauson Freeway. But there was also the Beverly Hills Freeway, portions of which can be seen in the strange little parklands along Santa Monica Blvd and the wide split where it meets Century City. Also there was the Laurel Canyon Freeway, the Whitnall, the Industrial, the Reseda, the Rio Hondo, the Huntington Beach, the Pacific Coast Freeway. LA only built 1/3 of its planned freeways.
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