The reason being because then there would be a disproportionate number of ‘people of color’ arrested/ticketed/cited.
The part of town worst affected by this is the same part of town that refuses to allow a levee to be constructed to protect them from a flooding Trinity River, claiming that the levee would cut their residents off from ‘opportunities’ - despite there being several bridges in the area for use by pedestrians and motor vehicles. Then, when the Trinity does flood, they complain about how they have no flood protection.
Cutting off access to “opportunities?”
There are no less than FOUR bridges that span the full width of the mighty Trinity—I recommend the Dallas-FtWorth Turnpike.
I hear about this “Horseshoe Project”, now underway, that aims to rebuild that, and the rest of the bridges into Downtown...