In the 1950s the design was for a loop with an expressway on the river, a highway over Elysian fields and a highway over Claiborne with the Pontchartrain expressway to be built over the canal that was being filled in.
Two of the high rise projects were canceled because of fight from the French quarter. So the traffic was always worse than it should have been based on original designs. Now rather than add to, they will take away six lanes of interstate highway to be replaced with six lanes of surface streets with 8 stop lights.

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Posted by WaWaWeeWa

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Posted on 4/12/21 at 8:28 am to Napoleon

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Now rather than add to, they will take away six lanes of interstate highway to be replaced with six lanes of surface streets with 8 stop lights.

But they will get trees back and that is why people are killing each other, they don’t have any trees.

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Posted by supadave3

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Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:10 am to Napoleon

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the 1950s the design was for a loop with an expressway on the river, a highway over Elysian fields and a highway over Claiborne with the Pontchartrain expressway to be built over the canal that was being filled in.

Wasn’t the tunnel that collapsed near Harrahs supposed to fit into this design somehow?

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Posted by Ed Osteen

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Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:37 am to Napoleon

a random fun fact is the tunnel that runs under Harrahs, I believe a large portion of it has been made into a parking garage

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There's another tunnel in town, and it's in an unexpected place: beneath Harrah's Casino in downtown New Orleans. It's closed off to the public today, but it was originally designed to usher six lanes of high-speed interstate traffic between all points east and the West Bank.

The little-known chamber is a relic of an era of transportation modernization advocated by Mayor deLesseps "Chep" Morrison after World War II.

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So tasked, architects at the firm Curtis and Davis designed a two-level basement beneath the Rivergate's main exhibition area, with the lower level for storage and the upper for mechanical equipment.

Under the Rivergate's breezeway and concourse, the two basements would become one, forming a 20-foot-high flat-ceiling "box culvert" with three lanes of traffic in each direction and a total combined width of 98 feet.

*damn, I see I'm a few minutes late to the party