“These photos are taken from the same spot in Buffalo, New York (see highlighted church steeple)—in the [mid] 20th Century and recently,” writes Robert Steuteville for CNU Public Square. “The photo at left captures the city in the early stage of demolishing a beautiful street to make way for a highway. As transportation engineer Ian Lockwood wrote on Twittter:” “Imagine walking along a linear park to your church on a fresh winter morning and seeing the steeple through the trees. On your walk the next day, you witness a chainsaw crew cutting down the trees. Then the bulldozers and pavers show up. Buffalo, NY meets #motodom. How would you feel?” “A thoroughfare was built, which eventually became the sunken Kensington Expressway, NYS Route 33, that you see on the right.”
