I think it's annoying when people compare apples and oranges with freeway removal projects. Syracuse is a true freeway removal of a major interstate. Rochester removed a lightly traveled route that was close to I-490, so access didn't really change at all (especially since the only way to get to it from the east side was to drive around the other side or use local streets anyways). Denver and Boston buried their interstates rather than remove them. Yet the article (and many urban activists, as well) treats them as if they're all the same.