The Offenders: The Cross-Bronx Expressway, New York City; The Alaskan Way Viaduct, Seattle

To the 21st-century American, the idea of razing homes to make room for more roads may seem inconceivable, or at least dated. Our metropolises might be strangled with congestion, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a traffic engineer or highway designer who thinks more urban expressways are the solution. That wasn’t always the case.

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