SAN ANTONIO FREEWAY: SOCIAL-IMPACT LANDMARK

San Antonio's McAllister Freeway, or rather its proposed construction, aroused so much furor as to generate national publicity in the early 1970s. Objections arose because it cut through a park and a golf course, near a zoo, and close to historic Alamo Stadium (whose old masonry might be damaged by blasting for freeway construction). This became one of the nation's most famous stop-and-start-the-freeway projects, twice involving court orders stopping work. Today complete, the freeway is reportedly liked by a heavy majority of area citizens.

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• Authors:
  • Lindholm, R H
  • Steinberg, M L
• Publication Date: 1980-6

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 80-82
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freeways; Highway engineering; Highway planning; Highways; Impacts; Planning; Socioeconomic factors; Urban areas
• Old TRIS Terms: Highway systems
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00317022
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 8 1980 12:00AM