Sao Paulo’s ‘Big Worm,’ an elevated highway, must go, urban planners say
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SAO PAULO — It's called the Big Worm — a 2.2 mile-long elevated highway that wiggles through the center of South America's largest city, curving feet from bedroom windows of once-elegant art deco buildings and carrying 80,000 noisy cars through a wide swath of cityscape each day.
Urban planners say that the 40-year-old concrete monster has no place in Sao Paulo and that flattening it should be on the city's to-do list if this sprawling metropolis is to modernize. This city, Brazil's economic heart, has to revamp the kind of out-of-date infrastructure embodied by the Worm, those planners say, if Brazil is to maintain the strong growth that has transformed the economy into one of the world's most vibrant.
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