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In the 1950s, plans for the Interstate Highway system included three major arterials that were ultimately shelved. The Mid-Crosstown Arterial was planned to connect the South Mall Arterial and Empire State Plaza directly to New York State Thruway Exit 23 to the south and to I-90 near Northern Boulevard to the north, including plans for an underground interchange beneath Washington Park. To the west, I-687 was a proposal to connect I-90 from Exit 5A (now Corporate Woods Blvd.) in Albany to the Northway near Rte. 155 in Colonie and Albany Airport. To the east, the South Mall Expressway would have connected the Dunn Memorial Bridge to I-90 at Exit 8 in North Greenbush (present day western terminus of NY Rte. 43). All three projects were cancelled by the 1970s; however, vestiges of these unbuilt projects exist in the form of seemingly overbuilt interchanges, missing exit numbers, and a bridge to nowhere. This presentation spotlights these unbuilt highways and how the City of Albany’s urban core and the development patterns of surrounding communities would be vastly different had the plans progressed to construction.

Reuben Hull, PE is Capital District Regional Director for McLaren Engineering, a civil, structural, and transportation engineering firm located in downtown Albany. A resident of Schenectady, Reuben is an upstate New York native and alumnus of RPI’s civil engineering program. With a passion for civil engineering and history, he currently serves as Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers History & Heritage Committee and has written numerous articles on historic civil engineering landmarks and the lives of game-changing civil engineers, including daily tweets “This Day in Civil Engineering History,” as the author of Civil Engineering Almanac (  / thisdayincehist  . Previous presentations and papers include “The French Attempt to Build a Canal at Panama,” for the 100th anniversary Panama Canal Symposium; “The 1939 New York World’s Fair: A Civil Engineering Showcase,” chronicling the transformation of a 1200-acre landfill in Queens to a world class exhibition site; and “The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done,” recounting the connection between folk singer Woody Guthrie and the development of the 1940s Columbia River Basin Hydroelectric Project.