Originating in the Meatpacking District, the park runs from Gansevoort Street – three blocks below 14th Street – through Chelsea to the northern edge of the West Side Yard on 34th Street near the Javits Center. The park is built on an abandoned, southern viaduct section of the New York Central Railroad's West Side Line. The High Line was inspired by the 4.7 km (2.9 mi) long Coulée verte (tree-lined walkway), a similar project in Paris completed in 1993. The abandoned spur has been redesigned as a "living system" drawing from multiple disciplines which include landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology. The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf. The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. New York City Bus: M11, M12, M14A, M14D, M23 SBS, M34 SBS at various places New York City Department of Parks and Recreationģ4th St–Hudson Yards ( trains) at park's north endġ4th Street–Eighth Avenue ( trains) near park's south end “The longer that we take to do it the more impact that we’re going to have.”Ĭontact Mick Akers at or 70. “The frustrating part for me is this is three years we’ve kicked this down the road … and we’re planning for the future,” Kirkpatrick said. The next meeting where the project will be discussed has not been scheduled.Ĭommission Chairwoman Marylin Kirkpatrick said in the Tuesday meeting that traffic volume in the area is expected to double by 2040 and something has to be done. “The underground option is something that probably has the fewest impacts to the campus and still addresses the need to improve traffic and access in the area,” Frommer said.įrommer said UNLV would be open to negotiating any right-of-way the county may need to acquire from the university and also would work with them financially, if the chosen option would require a financial contribution from the school.Ĭederburg said funding sources and timeline for whichever alternative is chosen still are being identified. The university is pleased with the $90 million version, but the alternative underpass is more attractive, UNLV Executive Director of Planning and Construction David Frommer. In the $90 million version, the raised portion of the elevated expressway would be moved further to the south to minimize the visual impact at Tropicana. But the higher education officials argued it would obstruct views of the Thomas & Mack Center and a pair of digital advertising signs, which stood to cost the university between $11.5 and $14.5 million in land value and advertising revenue. That original $78 million plan called for an elevated expressway leading from Swenson over Tropicana. The plan reconfigures the first redesign proposal initially presented last year, which UNLV officials and Nevada System of Higher Education board members contested. “Any relocation at that intersection would have a substantial cost associated with relocating all the utilities at that location,” Cederburg said.Ī second alternative presented Tuesday could cost $90 million. That would eliminate all cross-traffic on Paradise southbound, a major airport entrance route, and on Swenson northbound, a major airport exit route.īut officials also said it could cost an estimated $150 million, because multiple gas, sewer and water lines lie beneath Tropicana.
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The new proposal would send all Tropicana drivers underground between just west of Maryland Parkway and just west of Paradise Road, with diversion points in each direction to access the Thomas & Mack. It’s one of three options officials now have on the table to revamp Tropicana Avenue and Swenson Street, which sees surges of drivers traveling to and from the university, airport and Strip that put a burden on local traffic, Clark County public works director Denis Cederburg said at a county commission meeting Tuesday. The latest redesign proposal for a major intersection near UNLV and McCarran International Airport would send drivers underground. Rendering of what the redesigned above-grade portion of Swenson Street leading motorists exiting the McCarran International Airport area up and over Tropicana Avenue, to mitigate impacts to the intersection near the Thomas & Mack Center.(Courtesy of Clark County)
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