Oh yeah. The folks who build stuff, think new stuff ought to be built. With someone else's money.--------Detroit leaders want to lessen impact of freeways

Detroit leaders want to lessen impact of freeways:
"Now, many top business leaders, foundations and others with money to give are backing plans that lessen the reliance of downtown freeways.
"Business leaders and others aren't anti-freeway; but what you're seeing is many key people who have embraced alternatives," said Carmine Palombo, deputy executive director of Southeastern Michigan Council of Government, a regional planning partnership. 
"That's because studies show people want choices beyond freeways."
In 2015, expect to see the result of more policies and development plans promoting some of those choices, Palombo said.
He has studied regional transportation issues for more than 30 years.
"That includes making areas more pedestrian-friendly; bicycle paths, and M-1 Rail," he said, referring to the $137 million streetcar project downtown that's being installed now.
...."The freeway created both a physical and emotional barrier, and it wasn't good for that neighborhood," Christopher Ilitch recently told The Detroit News.
"We need to get rid of that barrier in a creative way.
No doubt about it: It's essential to connect those neighborhoods again."