Columnist Neal Peirce argues that demolishing old elevated highways, like Baltimore’s Jones Falls Expressway, would  heal communities destroyed by these remnants of the post-World-War II building boom.

He notes that one place where this idea s being pushed lately is New Orleans, where there’s a move afoot to tear down  2.2 miles of the elevated Interstate-10 Claiborne Expressway “as it plows into the city from the northeast, past the French Quarter and ending near the Superdome.”

See a VIDEO of a Second Line Parade under the expressway.

“The expressway was constructed to run straight through — and over the wishes — of the heavily African-American Treme neighborhood, where the city’s Creole aristocracy had once held sway,” Pierce writes.

Here’s a video of a Second Line parade under I-10 in that city.

Here’s a link to a Brew piece discussing the idea, revived periodically in Baltimore, of knocking down the JFX.