Future of the Gardiner Expressway - Nanos Research

Urban Design Goals Open Space Goals Transportation Goals Economic Dev. Goals• Create a new “civic arcade”.• Re-establish physical and visualconnections between town center andwaterfront.• Clad underside of elevated structure inorder to create inviting environment.• Develop new retail under elevatedstructure.• Provide a diversity of recreationprograms that appeal to range ofusers and age-groups (skateboardpark, basketball, and marina,among others).• This project made no changes toexisting highway configuration.• Supermarket tenant was attractedto site that offered opportunity forhighway accessibility and large floorplatein town.• Create a new Paris landmark throughhistoric restoration of 19th-centuryinfrastructure.• Strengthen role of Avenue Daumensilas a neighborhood cultural and retailcorridor.• Advance city agency goal for “greeningthe city”.• Develop new 2.5-mile-long linearpark on top of elevated rail viaduct.• Railroad viaduct closed in 1969.This project had no significanttransportation goals.• Re-tenant retail and cultural spaceswith up-scaled uses.• Develop new public spaces andprogrammed pavilions under elevatedhighway.• Clad underside of elevated structurein order to create inviting environment.Elevated highway treated as “roof” fornew public spaces.• Coordinate with and enhance other post-September 11th Lower Manhattan publicrealm and development initiatives.• Develop network of upland publicspaces, arbors, and planters thatconnect to waterfront esplanade.• Street section and parking underelevated highway reconfigured inorder to create pedestrian-friendlyenvironment.• Support overall post-September 11thplanning for Lower Manhattan toprovide new amenities for residentsand works.• Advance transformation of LowerManhattan into a residential district.• Route 5 study does not considersignificant urban design goals.• Improve access to plannedwaterfront pedestrian and bicyclegreenway.• Improve access to Outer Harbor(manufacturing district on Lake Erie).• At-grade option (not recommended byNYSDOT) would create value recaptureopportunities for the state.• Improve pedestrian access fromneighborhood to Potomac River.• Preserve and improve river views.• Connect to new waterfront park.• Provide alternative route for 45,000vehicles that use Whitehurst Freeway.• Build on previous decade ofincreased property values by removingimpediment to waterfront revitalization.• $35 million public investment inrehabilitating the freeway in 1998weakened argument for its removal.SECTION VII: SUMMARY MATRIX 61