Psychological division between Jocelyn Sq and Upper State St

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Here are some photos from the tree planting under this underpass this Summer. Thank You so much to DOT, City of New Haven, URI, SeeClickFix employees and especially the 50 neighbors that did all the hard work.

Hey Mark,
The exit 5 access has been removed from State Street for the past 6 months. It would be interesting to do an economic impact study on the small businesses to see if this theory holds for them as well.
Possibly a survey on business of those North of Humphrey on State over the last 6 months?

Also, in case anyone missed it, great coverage by the New Haven Independent of the tree planting that occurred this year under the overerpass: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/a_tree_grows_in_a_concrete_world/

Great ironic photo of a City Bench placed on the saw cuts for our new trees just before planting:

In the long term, removing the psychological barriers between Jocelyn Square and East Rock and Wooster Square will require modifications to I-91, which is the urban element that divided these areas in the first place. Additions like trees and tactical urbanism, as suggested by Brian, can help but will not really eliminate this barrier to walking.

Removal of all or part of Exit 3 would create millions of dollars in additional tax revenue for New Haven. It would also create potentially dozens of acres of land that could be developed as parks, affordable housing and retail space. It could also tie Wooster Square, East Rock and Jocelyn Square together in a way not seen since before I-91 was built. It would be a far more cost-effective project than the boulevardization of Route 34. Most importantly, removing a freeway exit would have a huge ripple effect on adjacent properties and streets, increasing their development value as they are no longer impacted by proximity to a highway or traffic exiting at high speeds from the highway.

With appropriate mitigation measures, this would result in minimal impact to other sections of New Haven. Freeway exits have been removed in hundreds of cities around the world, generally with very positive results.

Attached is an image showing one possible configuration. This eliminates the most problematic section, which is the highway offramps to the corner of Trumbull & Orange. This one keeps the northbound I-91 entrance and exits but diverts some traffic to State Street, rather than Orange (State Street being a much more common corridor for entry into the city).

Green shows "new" land that would be reclaimed for appropriate economic & community development uses.

Attached image, a more aggressive removal of the entire exit. Potential new streets are shown in blue. The permeability created by these new streets would dramatically increase the walkability and bikeability of all three surrounding neighborhoods.

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