Worley would be a key player in the I extension; from founding the CIHE group in to the work he did designing nearly all of the interstate's waterfront amenities. People were like: 'You're going to do what to our lake? Worley and others really were visionaries. In the s, what is now the Canal Park area of Duluth was not pretty.
Here's how one Kansas City writer described what a person would have seen looking east to Lake Superior from downtown Duluth in "Railroad tracks. A graveyard of flattened automobiles. Decaying and defunct warehouses and factories. Worley said the explanation by highway engineers that the new freeway would only affect the "underbelly" of Duluth was one of many motivating factors. Land always has more potential than one can see on the surface. In December , Mayor Robert Beaudin appointed a group of residents both for and against the freeway continuation to the I Citizens Advisory Panel.
Worley gives city planner Dick Loraas a tremendous amount of credit for finding federal money to fund a multiple-use study, which was the impetus for forming the advisory panel. Bray also credits Mayor Beaudin, for empowering the I Citizen Advisory Panel to work with government officials to "fully integrate the design of the freeway into the urban environment of the City of Duluth.
In , members of the panel voted in support of an "inland" freeway route rather than the original route along the shoreline which is basically what exists today. The new design used cut-and-cover tunnels that carried the freeway under historic landmarks and ultimately served to connect the downtown to the lakeshore in an entirely new way, with the tops of the first tunnel serving as a "bridge" to Lake Superior. Putting the roadway in tunnels also eliminated water spray and wind issues off the lake and reduced the traffic noise.
However, even with a genius design, there were many hurdles to be crossed before the freeway project could resume. The project was incredibly complex and involved more than just the railroads; approval or rulings were required from at least 23 public agencies, plus there were shippers, unions and property owners to consider. It spans nearly the entire nation from north to south, except it stops a little over miles short of the Canadian border.
There are so many incredible sights and places near this interstate that it would take a substantial amount of space to list them all. We've listed a few below, from north to south:. According to Wikipedia, parts of I existed before the interstate system was contrived. The work of planning, staging, and construction, however, stretched on for several years. The subsequent seven sections were offered to independent contractors and were completed incrementally until construction finally ceased in Initially, experts predicted that the new I would see 68, vehicles a day by While the number of cars per day would later rise, the number hovered around 60, during the interstate's first decade, in part due to rising gas prices during the s.
Today, the portion of I just north of Waco's traffic circle carries , cars per day. New plans to widen the eight-mile stretch of I within Loop are currently slated to begin in Although the interstate has brought significant change to the communities along its path, I's perennial construction has proven to be a constant for Central Texas drivers since the highway's inception. For full functionality please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.
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