Anthony Foxx
Posted on 05/01/2016 9:21:51 AM PDT by rktman
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wants to make the nation’s roadways more “inclusive,” according to articles published by National Public Radio (NPR) and Think Progress, the reporting arm of the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP).
NPR reported [1] Thursday that Foxx, who was raised by his grandparents in Charlotte, N.C. and became the city’s mayor before President Barack Obama appointed him to Transportation secretary, said highways were designed to deliberately hurt certain residents.
“I didn’t realize it as a kid,” Foxx said of the interstate highways snaking through that state. “I didn’t think about it as economic barriers, psychological barriers but they were, and the choices of where that infrastructure was placed in my community as it turns out weren’t unique to Charlotte.”
The NPR article titled, “Secretary Foxx Pushes To Make Transportation Projects More Inclusive,” cited the Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx, which links two interstate highways in the state.
Reporter Brian Naylor said urban planners back in the 1950s and ‘60s made “deliberate decisions to route [highways] through low-income neighborhoods.”
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I think his complaint is that they DID go through black neighborhoods. Picking up slums for pennies on the dollar, using eminent domain. I know a guy who owned property in this lily white town in the 1970’s when I-495 went through, and he got $250/acre on land worth at least twenty times that, even back then.
Probably true, and considered at the time to go hand in hand with the progressive program of "slum clearance." Move the poor into high rise "projects" and use the land for higher purposes.
NYC did the same thing when they built Lincoln Center, wiping out many square blocks of poor but functioning neighborhoods to be replaced by a monument to the elite.
Anthony Foxx
Everything is racist. The country is evil. We’re all bad. The only way to fix it is by taking all of Whitey’s money and giving it to blackie.
LOL! So says john mellonhead. Kinda thinkin’ having a freeway in your front yard might be just a tad better than having leo the lion outside your grass hut waiting to make you his morning meal. Just sayin’.
Targeted a whole lot of farmer’s land. That guy can kiss off.
There is some truth to this claim. In the 1960s, bulldozing slums was seen as “urban renewal,” and, if well-placed, a large, elevated interstate could serve as a barrier against rioting blacks. Oh, and who was in power when such measures were approved? Democrat Lyndon Johnson. He called his program the “Great Society.”
I think the more important question is ...Do the interstates discriminate against crossdressers?
What happens when you put libs with a big chip on their shoulder in positions of authority.
One reason highways go through black neighborhoods is due to the fact that purchasing right of way is much less costly.
But even so, putting the highways in those areas ends up making their property more valuable.
Foxx is a fool with a big chip on his shoulder.
Fuel stops, eating facilities, shopping centers all follow the big road.
And, we know how much he “loved” black folks right?
Why didn’t highway planners buy expensive land to build a highway? I’m puzzled myself.
Highways went through poor areas because the land was cheap and few property values were hurt. In fact, some land became more valuable.
Let’s see. You need to bring a highway from point A to point B. You can either go through mansions and pay through the nose for land acquisition or the ghetto and pay less. What’s the more efficient choice?
But but but it’s raciest! This is huge and series, folks.
Capitalist Derangement Syndrome.
This it total,absolute bull**** !
I-90 took homes in Newton,MA where I lived-—it also went through Weston,MA.
Newton got 2 exits,one virtually destroyed a neighborhood square , and Weston got one.
Both areas are on the top of the income scale for MA.
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He wants the highways to intrude into rural and/or “white flght” areas, there must be no escape. Then those areas will have to open welfare offices, attracting yet more gibsmedats, then public transportation will be called for and enforced, and there goes the neighborhood.
Dont forget causing black children to only have one parent present, and for most to be born outside of marriage.
Driving interstate highways through residential neighborhoods is a pretty sure way to create slums.
Another Obama simpleton. I guess all roads lead to the black community.
He’s looking for another handout, for lazy people.
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