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Proposed view of the unbuilt Riverfront Expressway. Image from archival postcard.

Proposed sight of the unbuilt RiverfrontExpressway Image from historical postcard.

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Fifty years ago this summertime, word got to New Orleans that John Volpe, assistant of the Department of Transportation under President Richard Nixon, had actually terminated the Riverfront Expressway– the high-speed, raised interstate freeway slated for the side of the French Quarter. .
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Tulane University metropolitan geographer Richard Campanella pens an extensive remembrance for the fallen short Riverfront Expressway, a Robert Moses- developed freeway that would certainly have reduced New Orleans off from its historical beachfront and also the MississippiRiver

The legendary battle to reverse the freeway was referred to as ” the Second Battle of New Orleans,” and also combined preservationists, neighborhood participants, and also company rate of interests versus the well known Power Broker

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