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freeway design

Marquette Interchange Plankinton Off-ramp

Tags for this image:
  • disinvestment
  • disruption
  • freeway design
  • i-794
  • marquette interchange
  • modernization
  • ramp design
  • street grid
An oversized partial cloverleaf in dowtnown MIlwaukee, courtesy of WISDOT

Second Street under I-794

Tags for this image:
  • disinvestment
  • disruption
  • freeway design
  • i-794
  • marquette interchange
  • modernization
  • ramp design
  • street grid
As the Marquette Interchange transitions into I-794 between downtown, ramps and bridges soar above blocks that border the Menomonee and Milwaukee rivers and the thriving Historic Third Ward. While some buildings have been redeveloped here, the freeway disrupts their connections to the rest of the city and limits development of riverfront land that elsewhere is in high demand.
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Milwaukee east of Marquette Interchange

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  • disinvestment
  • disruption
  • freeway design
  • modernization
  • ramp design
  • street grid
The Marquette Interchange is so intrusive that uses at street level are seriously compromised. While sidewalk life in other parts of MIlwaukee is vibrant (see Brady Street photo collection), the Marquette Interchange resulted in the demolition of a building formerly occupying this vacant lot. The remaining buildings shown here, across the street from the city's new Amtrak and Greyhound station, are underused.
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Chicago neighborhood east of Kennedy interchange

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  • disruption
  • freeway design
  • investment
  • modernization
  • ramp design
  • street grid
A block east of the compact Kennedy Expressway's compact Adams St. on- and off-ramps, the disruption of the freeway is a memory and city life (and investment) begins returning to normal.
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Marquette Interchange (ground view)

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  • freeway design
  • modernization
  • ramp design
  • street grid
All traces of the once-rich city street grid and the historic fabric have been obliterated by the modernized Marquette Interchange.
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Modernized off-ramp (Marquette Interchange)

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  • freeway design
  • modernization
  • ramp design
Like the rest of the new Marquette Interchange, these off-ramps are sweeping, fully "modernized" and designed for higher speeds before deceleration. The ramps chew up large amounts of formerly taxable land.
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