Green Spine

The Green Spine is a proposal for a new transportation and environmental corridor. The spine would connect the major natural areas of the State and provide a transportation corridor for the future.

The corridor would be east of I-75. The corridor would be 1,320 feet wide with 400 feet for a future high tech interstate highway. The wide right of way would ensure that the interstate could have wide safe shoulders and a green center median. This wide right of way would ensure that the road would always be able to have natural landscaping on both sides of the road and in the median.

The Green Spine would also preserve 100 feet width for high speed rail, and 200 feet for utility corridors - gas, electric, oil, cable.

The balance of the right of way would be natural environment.

Summary - right of way

Interstate400
Rail100
Utilities200
Nature620
Total1,320


 

Interstate Highways in major urban areas are widened until they are ugly and unsafe.  And it appears that the United States will continue to grow in population and we will continue to
widen our interstates.  

What once was an attractive safe road with wide natural landscapes on both the side and center medians become the photos above and below.