[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[marktwain]

Just another way to weaken the United States, fund leftists, and discriminate against rural Americans.

[17th Miss Regt]

"Let's remove these eyesore, crumbling highways. They are racist!"

"But we are going to spend tens of billions of dollars to renovate them in the new bill in congress."

"Highways are all racist! Spend the money on local social programs for people of color."

Don't you just love it?

[KarlInOhio]

Drive through the city on Martin Luther King Boulevard or take the bypass around the city and drive an extra 30 miles?

Pretty easy decision.

[PGR88]

Got it? Highways are racist. Why do they call it “blacktop?”

Its obvious, isn’t it? to oppress people of color

[Larry Lucido]

I-375 from I-75 to Jefferson Avenue in Detroit doesn’t serve any real good purpose. It would open up a lot of real estate. They could put Hastings Street back in and open some jazz and blues venues - maybe a hotel or two.

[KarlInOhio]

“highways to boulevards” program at the Congress for New Urbanism, a think tank devoted to walkable urban environments. A Senate bill introduced last year called for $10 billion to be spent on urban highway removals. Even Detroit, perhaps the most car-dominated US city, is considering removing a stretch of highway.

“Now more than ever, in the age of Covid, people are rethinking how streets and the infrastructure around them serves the people who live in cities,”

6 lanes out in every direction and only 2 lanes in.

I thought that the 2020 riots and COVID had put a stake in the heart of the new urbanism. Detroit could get by with a dirt road just so long as I-275 and I-696 survive.

[Little Ray]

How ‘bout let the locals decide?

[Seruzawa]

Yeah. They bulldozed plenty of white neighborhoods too. More than Blacks.

[Trump20162020]

I am so mentally exhausted with the American mainstream media's constant black news coverage. Sometimes I just want to immigrate to whatever native English-speaking country has the lowest percentage of blacks in its national population. I know that's bad to say, but I'm just so over it...

[plain talk]

Yeah let’s see them tearing down Martin Luther King boulevard in some of these hellholes.

[Born to Conserve]

I think we’ve seen peak traffic. Telecommuting, virtual shopping, robotaxis, fine grained mass transit, etc. will cause reduced traffic in many, many ways.

[Seruzawa]

More grift for the NGOs.

[montag813]

Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highways.

"White homes" were bulldozed in the 1960s for the Long Island Expressway and Cross-Bronx Expressway and many other roads. What utter bullshit.

[enumerated]

I wonder what happened to Camera’s brothers, Microwave and Clock?

[tbw2]

There are legitimate arguments to be made to building more bridges so that people can safely cross highways. There is not a legitimate argument to removing billions of dollars in infrastructure so that two generation old disruptions MAY be “healed”.

[PIF]

Oh Goodie Goodie, the Regime wants to build infrastructure, cities want to tear it down. This should be fun.

I mean, who needs 4-6 lane or more well maintained interstate highway system to transport goods, people and in time of war heavy military equipment, when 1-2 lane dirt and gravel roads the highway system replaced work so much better for cities?

[Boogieman]

They want to chop out the arteries that allow white people to flee to the suburbs and still have good paying jobs in the cities.

[Organic Panic]

So will Chomo Joe’s massive infrastructure plan hurt communities of color hardest? Will black neighborhoods be torn down to make solar panel factories?

[shoff]

By forcing working people off the highways and onto boulevards it opens up more opportunities for reparations. Cause they be owed.