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Read the full editorial at dallasnews.com

Dallas’ freeway grid might have effectively connected the region, but it has proved a concrete divider for our city’s neighborhoods, with highways like Interstates 30 and 45 choking off areas like southern Dallas from the urban core.

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As you can imagine, though, these projects are expensive. The last time we wrote about the Southern Gateway Park, a proposed 5-acre green space over Interstate 35E near the Dallas Zoo, we were impressed by the project’s goal of revitalizing southern Dallas, even as we worried that there was too little civic and philanthropic commitment to its completion.

That’s why it’s encouraging that the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the region’s advisory group on transportation issues, plans to apply for a federal grant to fund infrastructure for four deck parks, including Southern Gateway.