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1. steve says:

   December 1, 2014 at 8:08 am

   Cant wait for that shitstorm of traffic.

2. Matthew Denker says:

   December 1, 2014 at 12:53 pm

   Or the complete lack of traffic even after the removal of the loop. Just as a thought experiment, let us imagine that all 9,000 cars a day that use it are clustered at rush hour in the morning and in the afternoon. This is an unrealistic assumption, but it is the ‘highest traffic’ one. Now let us define rush hour as a rather dense 7-9am in the morning and 4-6pm in the afternoon. That gives us 4 hours to move 9,000 cars. Or roughly 14,400 seconds. This is roughly a car every 1.6 seconds or 2,250 cars per hour. This is literally less traffic than a single lane round about, such as the one on Broad St. can handle. There are a half dozen east to west routes in the city, all of which are under utilized as it is due to the Inner Loop being there (itself underutilized). This will have almost no effect on traffic at all. There is, quite sadly, just not enough reason to be driving downtown to justify the loop. There probably never was, but cutting up the neighborhoods as they were was surely thought of as a happy result anyway.

3. Chris says:

   December 2, 2014 at 7:44 am

   I am so glad to see that portion of the loop going away! I have worked on that project in a supporting role over the last year. The need for the road does not justify the 100 of millions of dollars the State would need the next few years to repair and replace all the crossing bridges. The original goals and objectives for the road do not exist anymore and one could argue that they never did. Spending 17 million to remove it and replace it with a functional pedestrian friendly boulevard is the most prudent and responsible solution. Not to mention the acres that will go back on the tax rolls and the re-connection of the city and neighborhoods.

4. Ben says:

   December 2, 2014 at 9:15 am

   The traffic complaints about closing the inner loop are ridiculous, most people who used this section will have to go through 1, maybe 2 lights and will be right back on the inner loop/490 going wherever they needed to go. People act like they are going to be traveling miles out of their way to find the next available highway, which just isn’t the case at all.

   Random question, what do we call the remaining section of the inner loop? It’s not a loop any more.

5. Chris says:

   December 11, 2014 at 8:12 am

   What do we call the remaining section of the inner loop? How about “NEXT!” That needs to go as well..though know that it is highly improbably that it will. That section is basically a glorified on-ramp to 490.

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