Quote Originally Posted by Plutonic Panda View Post
But depending on you define vibrant, there are master planned communities around frisco Sam Rayburn Tollway, IIRC, that are somewhat vibrant.

If I do it in time, I’ll edit this post when I get back home and give some specific examples. I know of a few freeways being built and I’m thinking there are some high activity neighborhoods around them.
Thanks. And, yeah, I probably wouldn't consider anything in Frisco very vibrant, but again, I'm happy to be proved wrong. I really am curious if it is possible to have vibrant neighborhoods near "freeways" (and similar developments).

One of the most incredible examples of the destructiveness of freeways is the area between downtown Dallas and Deep Ellum. These are two areas of absolutely explosive growth and there's 4 blocks of deadness between them because of the freeway. It's almost stunning the ways in which freeways kill neighborhoods, which is why highways were used to destroy the neighborhoods of people of color for years. The black community of Tulsa actually rebuilt Greenwood after the Tulsa Race Massacre, but guess what destroyed that neighborhood: 244.