3-485: Aubrey Davis Park , formerly the Mercer Island Lid and First Hill Lid , is a park lid covering 2,800 feet (850 m) of Interstate 90 (I-90) between West Mercer Way and 76th Avenue Southeast on Mercer Island , Washington , United States. The park was created as to minimize the impact of I-90, opening to the public in the 1990s. Former Mercer Island mayor Aubrey Davis lobbied for the park's creation in
6-827: Is commonly used to create new parkland in urban areas, but can also be used to house buildings or other heavy structures like convention centers . In some locations, the terms stitch or cap-and-stitch are used to describe overpasses containing widened bridges that accommodate wider sidewalks or small amenity space beside the roadway above the highway. Cities and highway departments who propose building freeway lids over highways often cite potential benefits including reconnecting street grids near highways, or providing increased access to neighborhoods harmed by displacement caused by past highway construction. Freeway lids are often criticized by highway expansion opponents , who accuse highway departments of using freeway lids to " greenwash " their lane expansion projects to be more palatable to
9-415: The 1970s. After his death in 2013, the park was renamed after him. This article related to a protected area in the state of Washington is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Freeway lid A freeway lid (also known as a lidded freeway , freeway cap , highway cap or highway deck ) is a type of deck bridge built on top of a controlled-access highway or other roadway. It
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