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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 6 12:13:50 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 6 11:25:11 2009. Here's an example of how some of the expressways cut through the neighborhoods. And the same holds true for the straight portions of the ROW's, but I used one of the curves for this example, but again, the same holds true for the whole expressway projects.This of course is totally not to scale, but the premise is the same as if I used measurements. The point is, to add a median into a tight ROW as these expressways were built into, would mean at least 3 to 5 more houses on each side of every street to be taken down, and that's all along the ROW. That's a lot more displacement, as well as cost to aquire:   
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