1965 Press Photo Possible location for Riverfront Expressway at Jackson Square

Would an underground expressway stand the strain? Opponents of an elevated Riverfront expressway between canal street and Elysian Fields have urged that at least a portion of the facility between the flood wall at Jackson Square and the Mississippi River should be depressed. Some engineers who have studied the prolem have expressed fear that a tunnel which would carry the expressway under the levee between the river and the Jackson Square flood wall, would weaken the city's defenses against floods.

Photo is dated 1965.

Photo measures 9.75 x 8 inches.