{"id":462216,"date":"2010-03-23T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirt.asla.org\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2010-03-23T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:35:49","slug":"in-los-angeles-freeway-cap-park-plans-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462216","title":{"rendered":"In Los Angeles, Freeway Cap Park Plans Move Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Architect’s Newspaper<\/em> writes that plans for freeway cap park are moving forward in Los Angeles County.\u00a0The cap idea involves covering parts of a freeway with a “planted concrete lid.” The freeway cap parks are designed to reconnect neighborhoods cut off by freeways and create green community spaces through the city. Additionally, the\u00a0cap parks\u00a0will help reuse existing infrastructure and avoid the enormous costs involved in pulling down freeways. The parks would function as a sort of High Line, but instead of residing on top of abandoned rail road tracks, would be placed on working transportation systems.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0The Architect’s Newspaper<\/em>, there are four separate projects being considered across L.A.:\u00a0one in\u00a0Hollywood, one in downtown LA, and two in Santa Monica. “Hollywood Central Park would be built atop the 101 Freeway on a proposed 44-acre site between Santa Monica Boulevard and Bronson Avenue. Park 101 would be built atop the ‘Big Trench’ over the 101 Freeway downtown. Santa Monica is hoping to cap portions of the 10 Freeway between Ocean Avenue and 4th Street, and between 14th and 17th streets, creating five- and seven-acre parks.”<\/p>\n

The four cap park plans\u00a0differ depending on\u00a0existing infrastructure. Francie Stefan,\u00a0community and strategic planning manager for the City of Santa Monica, said: “Some are glorified bridges, some need center supports, and some just span the whole distance.”<\/p>\n

Among the four cap park proposals, the\u00a0Hollywood Freeway Central Park<\/a> project\u00a0is furthest along and has\u00a0just completed initial feasibility studies, <\/a>developed by AECOM<\/a>. The Friends of Hollywood Central Park are now raising funds for detailed environmental impact assessment studies. Early estimates put the cost of the proposed Hollywood Central cap park\u00a0in the range of\u00a0one billion.<\/p>\n

Vaughan Davies, director of urban design at AECOM\u2019s LA offfice, sees the new park as central to smart growth plans for Los Angeles: \u201cThe proposed site separates some of our most prized and appealing landmarks\u2014Olvera Street, Chinatown, and Union Station on one side; Disney Hall, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and City Hall on the other\u2014creating isolated pockets of activity rather than what we need: a livable, walkable, and unified downtown district.\u201d<\/p>\n

L.A. Curbed<\/a><\/em> writes that Santa Monica is also moving forward with one of the cap parks. The city council is voting on\u00a0$3.5 million study and preliminary engineering on\u00a0a proposed\u00a0five-acre park.<\/p>\n

Read the article<\/a> and see AECOM’s design concepts.<\/p>\n

Image credit: The Architect’s Newspaper \/ AECOM<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Architect’s Newspaper writes that plans for freeway cap park are moving forward in Los Angeles County.\u00a0The cap idea involves covering parts of a freeway with a “planted concrete lid.” The freeway cap parks are designed to reconnect neighborhoods cut off by freeways and create green community spaces through the city. Additionally, the\u00a0cap parks\u00a0will help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}