Tag: Highway Revolts In The United States
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The promise of an interstate highway through Denver in the 1960s tore apart community
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEWS | Denver’s Central 70 project is troubling residents Play Video 00:00 00:00 spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster ↑↓volume mmute ←→seek . seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%, 20% … 60% X Color Settings Aa Aa…
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The promise of an interstate highway through Denver in the 1960s tore apart community
On Sept. 12, 1964, hundreds crowded across freshly-painted highway stripes to watch the dedication of a new $12.5 million, 2.6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 designed to ease traffic congestion on what had been a four-lane street. City and state officials joined highway engineers as an enormous ribbon was cut and onlookers applauded the first ever…