Big Daddy Meets Big Dig in Toronto Freeway Confrontation
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The revival of cities as residential, and not just commercial, centers is sparking campaigns to demolish urban highways.
Toronto’s 59-year-old Gardiner Expressway is one of the latest examples: Running east-west along Lake Ontario, it cuts off some of the last remnants of land for development near the downtown core. Canada’s largest metropolis is joining cities such as San Francisco, Detroit and New Orleans in considering knocking down freeways as residents move from suburbs that the structures were built to serve.