However, there are racist trees. The one in my neighbor’s front yard has been calling me names for years. I wish Biden would allocate some money to get rid of it.
“I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, “
Hyperbole much?
What are they going to do? Paint the yellow and white lines black?
” infrastructure has become a barrier”
Ummm-—so they want to get rid of infrastructure because it’s a barrier? They literally want to starve these areas and leave them to buses and trains only to get in and out-—all under the guise of “racism”.
I guess there’s a Cornpop Boulevard in some town’s future.
Yeah, I really don’t like Buttigieg using the word gash. He needs to stick to what he knows.
US 1 has got to go because the US is not #1 and ,like all other Highways, it has the letters ‘US’, which is the most racist nation on Earth and the most racist nation in world history!!!
Let’s rename them all after the patron saints of Socialism and Marxism: Marx 1, Che 5, Stalin 95 etc.
What deprives “black communities of housing and commercial opportunities.”
is nitwits burning down their own communities, being involved in gang violence, and otherwise being colossal douchebags.
375 was a poorly designed freeway, is underutilized, and in terrible condition.
It needs to go away.
What the hell role does race play in this?
However, there are racist trees. The one in my neighbor’s front yard has been calling me names for years. I wish Biden would allocate some money to get rid of it.
“create a slower-speed boulevard”
Because it’s too hard to carjack at high speeds
So they’re going to do what to stop white flight, build a wall? And to bring in economic and housing opportunities for blacks? Eliminate cash bail?
“black bottom” in Detroit was already a black (and poor) area, having had inward migration from the south for 2+ decades already. The progressive planners of that era thought - let’s build beautiful highways for cars, and sewers, and move all these poor black folk into brand new public housing!
Now leftists hate cars, and tell us all that progressive social engineering didn’t work out so well.
The reason for inequality is inequality
It’s not racist, but big highways like this in the middle of cities do create a “the other side of the tracks” situation and divide areas
I’d rather they focus on why improving things like this are better for cities in other ways not the racism part
They’ve been reducing lanes and changing major roads like this where I live and it’s so much better
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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