Posted on 07/02/2022 6:17:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that the Department of Transportation would be spending at least $1 billion to address so-called “racism” in America’s public roads.
As reported by the Daily Caller, the program will be called Reconnecting Communities, which the Transportation Department calls the “first of its kind.” The new initiative says it will focus on rebuilding communities that were “racially segregated or divided by road projects.”
Claiming, with no evidence, that the design of the interstate highway system in the 1950s was specifically meant to negatively impact African-American areas, Buttigieg said that the program will provide financial handouts over the course of five years to predominantly African-American communities across the country.
“Transportation can connect us to jobs, services and loved ones, but we’ve also seen countless cases around the country where a piece of infrastructure cuts off a neighborhood or a community because of how it was built,” Buttigieg said during his announcement speech in Birmingham, Alabama.
“We can’t ignore the basic truth: that some of the planners and politicians behind those projects built them directly through the heart of vibrant populated communities,” Buttigieg falsely claimed. “Sometimes as an effort to reinforce segregation. Sometimes because the people there have less power to resist. And sometimes as part of a direct effort to replace or eliminate Black neighborhoods.”
The announcement builds off of previous suggestions by Joe Biden, laid out in his proposals for the American Jobs Plan in 2021, to spend as much as $20 billion to “reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments and ensure new projects increase opportunity, advance racial equity and environmental justice, and promote affordable access.”
Among the cities seeking federal handouts from the new program are: Portland, Oregon; St. Paul, Minnesota; Tampa, Florida; Syracuse, New York; Houston, Texas; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Even left-wing groups admitted that the concept of “racist” roads was a “fringe idea,” but nevertheless praised the Biden Administration for promoting such a conspiracy.
“Prior to 2021, the idea that we would deal with highway infrastructure that has divided communities was very much a fringe idea,” said Ben Crowther, a spokesman for the Freeway Fighters Network. “The Biden administration has really transformed that into mainstream thinking.”
C’mon man. Everybody has to hate those racist roads.
Well, there goes Coon Rapids Blvd.!
With the supply chain in shreds, this is the best plan he can come up with? We’re better off if he’d take a permanent maternity leave.
Black Tops Matter
This proves again that Buttplug is mentally ill
“Claiming, with no evidence, that the design of the interstate highway system in the 1950s was specifically meant to negatively impact African-American areas, Buttigieg said that the program will provide financial handouts over the course of five years to predominantly African-American communities across the country.”
financial handouts.......that’s all that this is about....reparations by any other name.
“through the heart of ‘vibrant’ populated communities”
They built one through my vibrant populated community of White people. It’s called I-40.
One good thing about many cities having an mlk blvd......you know that’s an area to avoid at all cost...especially at night.
The poofter doing to the nation what he and his butt buddy do to each other.
So moving the on ramps and exits out of minority neighborhoods?
Surely those black asphalt roads are racist, so they're going to be white asphalt roads now.
And no white people will be allowed to drive on them. Only black people.
No more "white privilege" on the roads anymore either. All white people must yield to black people, everywhere because traffic is racist too.
Yep, that'll fix this country alright!
“The Biden administration has really transformed that into mainstream thinking.”
This guy runs in a very small crowd.
Kick that low IQ loser’s ass outta there.
I’m quite disappointed to see that Buttigieg is doing nothing to address racist footpaths. The one behind my house has been calling me names for years, and frankly I’m sick if it.
That claim has been made about I-81 where it runs through Syracuse. They claim the elevated highway section of it divides the city, so they want to demolish it and put in a ground level highway, as if that is easier for people to cross.
Honestly, I swear a requirement to become a politician must be to fail an IQ test.
The only good idea they have concerning the project is to change 481 to become 81 instead of the bypass, and route all the interstate traffic around Syracuse, instead of through it, which is actually a good idea.
It’s only a 5 mile, 5 minute longer drive and much less constricted. An accident on 81 through the city now just snarls up traffic for half the city so the extra 5 minutes will be more than gained back.
They spend untold billions like its nothing. Where does it all come from?
Fiddling, while Rome is burning.
Things like this happen when people have no idea what their job is
Worst of all is the states speaking against the high court....when the Court was indeed Just on both abortion and guns.
Of course there are Soto, Breyer and Kagan...Dems through and through.
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