The city needs to look into developing high volume and higher speed connections into the downtown area and they should connect up with both interstates. Ideally you'd be able to exit to either Main Avenue or Unviersity and get downtown traveling 55 mph. This is a very difficult problem to solve as the only way downtown from University is via the one ways (10th and University). They both go through residential areas with numerous historical houses. We need something faster than 30 mph. Main Avenue is the same. Once you hit 25th, you're limited to 30 mph. I seriously don't know what the solution is. Here's a few ideas though: 1. Completely rip up a solid line of blocks, each 1 city block wide. Make a sort of "freeway". In terms of Main Avenue, simply eliminate all structures on the north side of the road and you'd be able to have a free way there. 2. Have the freeway go under the city. This I would imagine would be ridiculously expensive and I don't know what would have to be done to prevent the freeway from sinking, if it's undergound (drive concrete caissons all the way down to bedrock?).
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