East Side resident Sherry Sherrill led about 60 people opposed to the Kensington Expressway project on a march Saturday up East Ferry Street from Jefferson Avenue to Humboldt Parkway.
“Humboldt Parkway’s got to grow, Kensington Expressway’s got to go!” Sherrill said into a microphone amplified through a speaker she lugged beside her, one of many chants marchers repeated in unison along the half-mile distance.
The march, called by the East Side-based We Are Women Warriors, is the latest example of dissatisfaction with the $921.8 million project expected with inflation to cost over $1 billion.
The proposal calls for a tunnel from Dodge to Sidney streets with grass and trees above to reconstruct a portion of the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parkway. The parkway was destroyed when the highway was constructed during the 1950s and ‘60s.
“The Kensington Expressway was a huge injustice, and what the DOT is offering is clearly no solution to that,” said Alec Herbert, clutching a sign that read, “Let’s Connect MLK Park + Delaware Park,” which Humboldt Parkway did and the current proposal doesn’t do.
Bill Shanahan also wants to see the parkway restored.
“This was one of the best-planned and laid-out cities in the world, and we destroyed it with this terrible divide,” Shanahan said. “I’d like to see it come back together.”
A group critical of the Kensington project said its review of the public…
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