Steven Engelhardt

So it looks like the Crosstown Expressway may be rising, zombie-like, from the dead.

I live within about 1.5 miles from the western edge of the proposed expressway, so I have a personal interest in this proposal. However, as I have no particularly deep or insightful thoughts about it, I’ll summarize my views with “I support it, with reservations.”

Update 2007-02-22 10:14AM: Today I read this quote:

[Chicago Mayor Richard M.] Daley favors a two-lane, truck-only “freeway” — with a mass transit line down the middle — built on a platform to avoid displacing hundreds of homes and businesses in the Cicero Avenue corridor.

If that’s the final proposal, I rescind my earlier support. The freeway should be accessible by cars.