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David Sucher at City Comforts (by way of the excellent Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity) writes about the compromise that led ODOT to line a bridge over a Columbus overpass with shops. It's a pretty exciting possibility, and one that might have some traction here in Oak Park, where there's constant grumbling about expanding the Eisenhower Expressway. One potential problem is traffic - lining a bridge with shops makes it much harder to expand in the future, and probably generates some traffic of its own. But the idea could do wonders in terms of reuniting communities shredded by the highway system.