Center for Urban and Regional Planning research
Retrofitting Interstate 410
Project Team
Principal Investigator:
Ian Caine, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Urban and Regional Planning Research
Researchers:
Bill Barker, FAICP, Adjunct Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
Ivan Ventura, Research Assistant
Project Description
This urban research and design project explores the transformation of 20th-century highways from mono-functional, automobile-focused infrastructures to multi-functional, multi-modal transportation networks. The site is Interstate 410 in San Antonio, Texas, where ubiquitous frontage roads and U-turn lanes offer significant infrastructural redundancies providing the site for a large-scale suburban retrofit project. Preliminary site research reveals that San Antonio’s inner-ring highway network offers the short-term potential to absorb new users, and the long-range potential to transform into a metropolitan connector for new transportation modes and programs. The initial goal is to retrofit selected U-turn lanes and frontage roads, repurposing them from automotive streets to protected bicycle and pedestrian amenities. The longer-term vision is to transform the infrastructure to accommodate new transportation modes and programs.
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