Following years of planning and discussion, the Austin City Council on Thursday took its first major vote on a plan to cover sections of Interstate 35 in Central Austin with acres of parkland and walkways.
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Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
The tour is about a third of a mile long walk on lighted, paved walkways and steel bridges.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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