Claiborne Avenue: Past, Present, and Future

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) supports the conversion of New Orleans' Claiborne Overpass/Interstate 10 (I-10) into a revitalized North Claiborne Avenue. A possible highway-to-boulevard conversion will reconnect the Tremé/ Lafitte and Tulane/Gravier neighborhoods to the rest of New Orleans, bring people and businesses back to the street, increase opportunities for community investment and economic development, and promote healthier living conditions.
This video explores the history of Claiborne Avenue, its present condition, and re-imagines a different future for the corridor.
This video was produced with support from the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the Ford Foundation, with special thanks to the Claiborne Corridor Improvement Coalition. This video was created by New Orleans-based photojournalist and multimedia producer, Rob Davis: robdavisphotogr....
For more, see www.cnu.org/hig...

[@jamesr1703]

I would really like to see this elevated freeway removed to ground level. It would be amazing! Our politicians have to stop accepting money to keep voting it down though.

[@LexSweeney]

Thanks to Wendell Pierce for posting this on Twitter - hope alights the heart. Just the idea that money was given and spent on researching revitalizing historic African-American neighborhoods is a miracle. But it does sound like there is a lot good push coming from many corridors for this.

[@anthonyroche7064]

It is kind of messed up what was done and was really a bias move but the worse thing you can do now is tear it down it’s to much to explain but as a person that lives in the city no good would be brought by talking it down

[@dj5041000]

I Completely Agree..1967 and 2021 are 2 different Realities..Everything Must Chang with time..

[@Dan_1022]

there's literally no point on doing that now, it can just be completely reconstructed and make it more beautiful and make the underneath of the highway a public space where people would like to go and making something so sunlight can get under the expressway. if it's torn down then.. it would be harder to get from one side to the other. may decrease congestion but make way less connections... tearing down elevated highways isn't a cool thing. on my opinion. maybe it is here but at least one could make an alternate route nearby. not just tearing it down and not replacing it and not building a tunnel and make Bostons mistake of spending so much in an ugly tunnel. I would like it if there were a new alternate route from one side of the elevated to the other with our the need of it. and not a tunnel.

[@darleneolivo]

Bravo! A thousand times and more: YES!!! I loved going down that boulevard as a child, and my grandfather used to drive from Broadmoor to the Circle Grocery to shop. I remember the live chickens in cages, for one thing.

[@WhatYaReading]

My great aunt said she left New Orleans the day they started building that bridge for Los Angeles.

[@jamesr1703]

To a place that is covered with freeways 8 and 10 lanes wide in each direction.

[@WhatYaReading]

@@jamesr1703 they started to build the freeway in Los Angeles as soon as she arrived there. She would always say she should have stayed in New Orleans.

[@gfalcon]

It smells more like a "gentrification" rather than a "restoration"

[@ctcmonk]

Would absolutely love to see some of these ideas come to fruition.. As a born raised and stayed New Orleanian I know this has a 0% chance of happening

[@jmua8450]

They either had to bulldoze the French Quarter or Claiborne, They made the right choice,

[@tonywalton1052]

I love the I-10. Zipping over Claiborne is a beautiful feeling. In the early 70's We took ourselves to Metairie and, well goodbye Claiborne shopping. Goodbye Canal Street. Goodbye to the clock at DH Holmes on Canal street. Sincerely, Ignatius J Reilly

[@blogleftbanker]

The automobile was a tragic mistake of the 20th century that needs to be replaced in the 21st by two 18th century innovations: the train and the bicycle. Where I live, this is already happening very rapidly.

[@miguelm1980]

Thank you @Comedianboogiebofficial for the history lessons on TikTok. Here learning more of this . Knowledge is power!

[@galaxies352]

What happened to the other parts of New Orleans that they didn't build an interstate through that ended up in the same state as this area? It's very easy to blame this area's problems on the construction of the I-10 when the blight New Orleans was about to face in the coming decades was about to happen all around the city. The new VA / LSU Hospital along Tulane Ave, and Canal St. has misplaced MANY more people and structures than the I-10 did. That area was just as 'historic'.Where's the outrage

[@dj5041000]

Exactly..Thank youuu... 🤗🤔👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@samuelchambers5]

Does anyone have an update? I would not be surprised if nothing has been done.

[@ctcmonk]

Nothing has been done.

[@samuelchambers5]

@@ctcmonk I thought as much, but hoped.....

[@mrmonty86]

Pipe dream.

[@Zalis116]

Certainly an unfortunate story in many ways, and it does seem pointless for I-10 to dip south for such a short stretch when 610 is the straighter through route. The predictions seem a bit like Magic 8-Ball planning, though. "If we tear down this road, will investments come to this area?" -> "My Sources Say Yes" -> "Take it down!" What if it'd said, "Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later"?

[@dj5041000]

I say NO THEY WONT...if they have Not invested since 1967 then go figure..its just a Dead Area..like Chef hwy, or St Claude ave, or St Bernard off st claude..it is what it is..why waste that type of Money on an old Fantasy..

[@lakecrab]

And now we people from Slidell and the North-Shore are addicted to the easy access to the CBD. We are happy to make our big bucks and take 'em home unaccosted by the poor.

[@galaxies352]

Like I stated "blight New Orleans was about to face in the coming decades was about to happen all around the city". A new, modern roadway is also desired to progress an area... just like the hospital project. That 'historic' neighborhood was in shambles before Katrina.

[@swampwiz]

But the expressway destroyed the whole community. It was not needed. I-610 could have been made as a 4 lane highway. As for the VA / LSU Hospital, we all know that what made it much easier was Katrina. And even if there had been no Katrina, that would not have destroyed the neighborhood. A hospital is *always* a desired addition to a community.