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So, speaking of the west side highway, I did read a book you might find interesting, although it doesn't have many photos, called Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars -- it was written by NYC's 1980s traffic commissioner. Here's a relevant quote from the summary:
> On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York’s West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn’t. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had induced the demand for car travel. It was a classic case of “build it and they will come,” but for the first time the opposite had been shown to be true: knock it down and they will go away.
https://www.amazon.com/Street-Smart-Rise-Cities-Fall/dp/1610395646