Posted on 09/19/2022 10:44:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOL good one.
It is probably similar to I81 in Syracuse. When I was there in ‘84-85 us SU students knew to never cross under I81 because the other side was “the Hood”.
I81 runs north and south through Syracuse. The southeast side is University Hill. College students did not cross over to the south west side of the city. There was a dorm just on the east side of highway 81 where most of the nursing students lived. Rapes in that dorm became such a problem that they made you show ID and have a student resident sign you in to enter the building.
They want to remove that highway too because it separates the good part of Syracuse from the bad.
Going to have to remove all the railroad tracks next.
Some wealthy guy wants to build something and will pay city officials handsomely for the opened land/parks. Guessing hotel or casino...typical.
First, some history.
At the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York, FDR saw a map of a proposed system of national superhighways based on the German autobahns. Roosevelt laughed at the map and called it “bunk.”
But the Pennsylvania Turnpike, based on the autobahn concept, was already under construction. The autobahns don’t go through cities but around them. You have to leave the city to get access to the autobahn. If you look at a map of Pennsylvania, you’ll note that the turnpike goes around Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, not through either city.
General Eisenhower got a good look at the autobahns after the war, and they planted a seed in his mind. That seed eventually sprouted to become the National Interstate and Defense Highway System, passed by Congress and signed into law by Eisenhower in 1956. Ike wanted the interstates to go around the cities, not through them.
In 1960, Ike was riding in the presidential limo when he saw a block of brownstone homes being demolished. He asked the driver what was going on. The driver answered that the homes were being razed to make room for I-95. Ike had a fit. Arriving at the White House, he asked his chief of staff to find out who made the decision to ram the interstate through Washington. It turned out to be the head of the Federal Highway Administration, a man who had been appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and was still there. “Tell him that as of tomorrow he’s retired,” Ike said. The errant head of the department retired and married the secretary with whom he had been carrying on an affair for years, and they went on their honeymoon – by train.
If you check a map of DC, you’ll note that I-95 joins the I-495 beltway and does not go through the city. Ike won that battle.
But with the arrival of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, urban Democrat machines saw an opportunity to build urban freeways as a tool of urban renewal. Inside the clubhouse, politicians joked that urban renewal was code for Negro removal. Black politicians should have raised holy hell, but they had been bought out by the machine. Thus thriving black neighborhoods that had existed for years were bulldozed to make way for urban freeways. Yes, it was racism, but it was liberal racism, the “good racism.”
The thriving black neighborhoods are gone, and they aren’t coming back. Demolishing a stub freeway that was once intended to be a major urban freeway is too little and too late. That horse left that barn 60 years ago.
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Ok, normally I disagree with the socialist/communist Democrats/RINOs on almost everything. However, on this specific topic, I completely 100% agree with the Democrats/RINOs. For many years, I've been complaining (until I'm blue in the face) about all the racist highways throughout our nation but my cries always fall on deaf ears.
Just yesterday, I was traveling on an interstate highway for over two hours and every second of the way, I was totally disgusted by all of that highway's obvious racism. It's really reprehensible and our country is better than that. There is no place in America for racist highways! The U.S. highway racism never ends. So I'm glad that, finally, Democrats/RINOs are publicly complaining about all the U.S. "racist highways" and giving that shameful American problem all the attention it rightfully deserves: "ABOLISH ALL U.S. RACIST HIGHWAYS NOW!"
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RE: ABOLISH ALL U.S. RACIST HIGHWAYS NOW!”
And what do you propose to replace them with?
Black Top
So do railroad tracks.
As in”wrong side of the tracks”
Trains be racist too.
White flight gives blacks access to nice but greatly reduced priced houses in previously white neighborhoods. That’s a good thing, huh.
I saw my childhood home for sale online. OMG, faux white marble on all the floors, the huge fireplace and wall, kitchen backsplash, showers, and on the counter tops. Of course, the cabinets, doors, walls and ceiling were white.
Swell. What’s next. I 95 in DC?
No more black top roads?
Gotcha! ;)
WTF are you talking about?!? Don't you know that in Amerika, it's literally impossible for anything to ever be to the benefit of even one black person! Wake up! Amerika always has been, is, and always will be totally racist against all black people. Also, in case you're unaware, Amerika created the very concept of slavery. It didn't exist before Amerika and it hasn't existed in the world after Amerika abolished it in 1865. Study history, you, you ... you Republican! Aaaargh!!! ....
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In Cuyahoga County I-480 cut like a gash through several neighborhoods. They all were white at the time of construction, but hey— a neighborhood’s a neighborhood right? Tear it down!
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Do you really want the answer to that question?
Warning - It is a truly frightening answer -
frightening to anyone who may 'dislike' being governed by sociopathic morons.
It was kind of a rhetorical question actually
Whew! ....
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