>Tunnels?
Yes, friends. Interesting story, actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrah%27s_New_Orleans
>A small piece of the freeway was built as a six-lane tunnel, 690
>feet (210 m) long by 98 feet (30 m) wide, under the Rivergate
>Convention Center, now Harrah's New Orleans Casino. It is now
>used for valet parking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux_Carr%C3%A9_Riverfront_Expressway
https://archive.is/TTfIx
The story is Archbishop Hannan, personal friends with JFK, use the sway of the RCC in New Orleans to put an end to this interstate intrusion into the French Quarter.
https://www.rivergator.org/river-log/baton-rouge-to-venice/baton-rouge-to-new-orleans.cfm/pg/45/
>The Archbishop of New Orleans, Philip Hannan, mobilized his well-connected parishioners, calling it the "right thing do to," and, even though Lindon B. Johnson signed
>an appropriation for the" Vieux Carré Expressway" into law, Nixon came along and cancelled it. When you think about it in the larger scheme, New Orleans was so far
>behind other cities that it eventually came out ahead: many other riverfront cities are still struggling to remove the layers of concrete that separate the river from the
>people who need it to stay sane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hannan#Auxiliary_Bishop_of_Washington,_D.C.
>Hannan, however, was asked by the Kennedy family to deliver the homily at the "low" or recited Requiem Mass (as opposed to a "high" or sung Requiem Mass which a
>high government official would ordinarily receive), which substituted for a formal eulogy, since a traditional eulogy was not permitted by the Catholic Church (the first
>presidential funeral to feature a formal eulogy was that of Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1973).