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Article: Park East freeway a fast way to start an argument

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May 28, 1999
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Within the city's grand plan for downtown's future, few things stir passions as much as the proposal to demolish the Park East Freeway.

Oh, sure, everyone has an opinion about the plan's mention of a possible downtown light rail system.

But the Park East isn't a transit planner's fantasy it exists today, and it moves cars in and out of downtown. And that's why the plan to demolish it between N. 4th and N. Jefferson streets essentially remaking it into a really long ramp for I-43 has some people up in arms. "Obviously, there's going to be property owners who feel that

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