Editing Interstate 40 (section)

===Controversies===
In [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], I-40 was originally planned to pass through the city's [[Overton Park]], a {{convert|342|acre|ha|adj=on}} public park. Following a public announcement of the routing, a group of community activists opposed to the routing founded an organization called [[Citizens to Preserve Overton Park]] in 1957, and collected 10,000 signatures in their support.<ref name=McNichol>{{cite book |last = McNichol |first = Dan |date = 2006 |title = The Roads that Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=b0qO1yCFRxYC |location = New York |publisher = [[Sterling Publishing]] |pages = 159–161 |isbn = 9781402734687 |via = Google Books }}</ref> After Secretary of Transportation [[John Volpe]] authorized the state to solicit bids for the construction of the Interstate through the park in 1969, the organization filed a lawsuit, which culminated in the [[List of landmark court decisions in the United States|landmark]] [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] ruling of ''[[Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe]]'' in 1971, which ruled that the state highway department had not adequately explored alternative routes for the interstate.<ref>{{cite court |litigants = Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe |vol = 401 |reporter = U.S. |opinion = 402 |court = U.S. Supreme Court |year = 1971 |url = http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=401&page=402 |via = [[FindLaw]] }}</ref> This case is considered to have established the modern process of [[judicial review]] of infrastructural projects, and eventually resulted in the state rerouting the alignment of I-40 through the park onto a section of I-240 in 1981.<ref name="McNichol"/><ref>{{cite news |last1 = Cunningham |first1 = Morris |last2 = Brosnan |first2 = James W. |date = January 17, 1981 |title = I-40 Funds Diverted, Park Route Canceled |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88551737/i-40-funds-diverted-park-route-canceled/ |page = 1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88551755/canceling-park-route-nets-city-i-40/ 3] |work = The Commercial Appeal |location = Memphis |access-date = November 8, 2021 |via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>