Quote Originally Posted by Plutonic Panda View Post
I hope they don't tear the highway down but there is no reason to eliminate the streetcar. Hopefully they can come up with a solution that benefits everyone.
Having lived in Little Rock, I can say that widening that highway to 10 lanes is overkill. Traffic does slow up during rush hour but its never that bad. The city has a very impressive downtown for a metro area its size and if they remove the streetcar and build this highway it will really damage their downtown. Little Rock isn't that big geographically. They would be better off to re-sign I-440 as I-30 which loops around the city. Then, they should convert the current elevated I-30 into a boulevard.

The current setup is very, very similar to the old Crosstown I-40 in OKC.