under the freeway
Endless miles of freeway have always irritated me. They plow through neighborhoods, dissecting blocks and turn well worn paths and local connections into dead ends. Instead of sustaining cities they perpetuate sprawl.
Someone in Melbourne must be thinking the same thoughts.
While riding a 20 mile loop through Melbourne’s close-in neighborhoods, I found myself riding UNDER a freeway. This creative solution, while not a pretty ride, re-connects the neighborhoods on either side of this freeway and gives back what it took away. I rode for miles with the sounds of fast-moving traffic above, on a smooth concrete deck, hung by steel straps from the substantial freeway structure above.
Brilliant.
Tags: bike, design, other cities, reinvention, transportation