On our bike ride to work (20 minutes), we pass under, alongside and near a highway (the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) that basically cuts three successive neighborhoods off from the city, not to mention burying their immediate surroundings in noise, shadows and imposing concrete superstructures. Not a day goes by that we don’t wish that bulky aberration were replaced or torn down entirely. And, if the folks at Infrastructuralist have anything to say about it, that might happen – if not to the BQE then perhaps to any number of New York’s other hideous, harmful and grossly unnecessary highways.

Their listicle of 4 Cases of Tearing Down Highways Helping Traffic looks at projects in Seoul, Portland and San Francisco (like the Central Freeway, pictured at right in before and after shots) that involved removing unecessry road infrastructure to create more livable and efficient urban infrastructure. Which city-strangling highway would you ax first?

(via GOOD)