The hybrid plan satisfies the desire
of some to keep the interstate flowing through the
city and
of others to
knit the
city's South Side and University Hill
neighborhoods with the downtown by getting rid
of an overhead highway.
Its creation, in four years, atop a complex network
of tunnels dug to bury an intrusive highway, also rejuvenates a long - lost stretch
of the Manzanares River, and in so doing
knits together
neighborhoods that the highway had cut off from the
city center.