Rooftop highway - Impractical fantasy Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at 10:54:09 PM     Alexandria Bay, NY 1000 Islands  Comments  Unique Views 1331/Total Views 1340

An article from the Press Republican

found via our friends at NewzJunky


"The idea of a "rooftop highway" is emerging again, as it does every decade, or so. It has popular support, as most government projects of a regional nature do. (What area of the country, offered a new, four-lane highway, would say no?) The question is, though, is such a gigantically expensive road the best we can get for whatever largesse we have coming?

The rooftop highway, first envisioned and advocated during the terms of the late North Country Rep. Robert C. McEwen in the 1960s, would be a four-lane highway connecting Watertown on the western end of upper New York state with Rouses Point on the eastern end. It would link communities along the way, such as Potsdam, Gouverneur, Canton, Massena and Malone, although, troublingly, it would bypass them. Its greatest selling point is that it would provide a connection with cities in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, via Interstate 87, with Albany and New York City."

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