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Reconnecting Communities Across San Diego's Freeways

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A short video overview of the Green The Gap vision and what freeway lids and bridges could mean for San Diego neighborhoods.

Hear directly from local advocates about why reconnecting communities across the freeways matters—and how you can be part of the solution.

In the News

San Diego Union-Tribune

How to Make Something Out of Nothing

June 26, 2021 • 4:00 PM PT

Across the nation, cities are looking at aging highways and imagining something new: open spaces that reconnect, rather than divide, neighborhoods.

San Diego Commons, a nonprofit led by local architects and urban planners, is proposing freeway lids over Interstate 5 to reconnect central neighborhoods that were split apart when the interstate was built.

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