BEND BUT DON'T BREAK IT
The key is to wrap it around the prison district, to distribute its traffic onto all the streets it should go to, and to allow the streets south of the prisons toward the waterfront to have a civilized environment, carrying only the traffic that wants to go there. Green is surface streets and highways. Red is elevated - southbound only. Yellow is new developable property.
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I like the gist of this proposal. Wouldn't it make sense to have 83 flow directly onto 40 East? It is already a wide thoroughfare. This would allow the Orleans Street bridge to come down. As I traveled east on 40 the other day it was clear how well it skirts the city's growth to the east, past Inner Harbor East, Fells Point, and Canton. Right turns off off 83/40, onto St. Paul, Guilford, President, Central, Broadway, Patterson Park all become excellent feeders, and it eliminates the choke at President and Fayette. And, as you point out, frees up street-level development in the Prison/Jonestown district north of Little Italy.
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