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The Peoria to Chicago Highway was a proposal that would have connected the cities of Peoria and Chicago with a direct multilane freeway. The Illinois interstate highway plan in the mid-1950s included a freeway from Peoria toward Chicago in the Interstate 180 corridor, but it was not approved by the Federal Highway Administration. In the late ...
A listing of notable planned highway projects which were either completely cancelled, or which were only partially built.Also refers to related pages on the topic. (This page only lists projects which were planned and later cancelled or scaled back; proposed highways which were never given serious consideration by transportation authorities are not listed).
Pages in category "Cancelled projects in the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Interstate 335 (I-335) is a canceled auxiliary Interstate route in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was planned to cross Northeast Minneapolis from I-35W south of Broadway to I-94 in North Minneapolis. Land was acquired and some demolition had proceeded when the road was defeated by local opposition.
The project was canceled in 1971 after intense protests organized by community activists, and following Sargent's 1970 moratorium on highway construction inside Route 128. It would have displaced some 7,000 people from their homes, created what opponents at the time called a "Chinese wall" dividing long established neighborhoods, and gutted ...
The now-demolished Cogswell Interchange in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the only segment built before its highway was cancelled due to public protest. Highway revolts (also freeway revolts, expressway revolts, or road protests) are organized protests against the planning or construction of highways, freeways, expressways, and other civil engineering projects that prioritize motor vehicle traffic ...
The route west of Kansas was not favored by any of the related state highway departments, and, as a result, I-66 west of Wichita, through New Mexico, Arizona, and California was canceled because of lack of interest from any of the state highway departments, and the insufficient projected traffic versus the extreme expense of building through ...