“through the heart of ‘vibrant’ populated communities”
They built one through my vibrant populated community of White people. It’s called I-40.
Indeed. The miserable project of the I-95 Extension devastated a corridor from Boston through Roxbury (Black), Jamaica Plain (Hispanic), Hyde Park, (Italian and Irish), Roslindale (Greek, Lebanese, Syrian, Italian, and Irish) all the way through Mattapan and Milton (Jewish and Irish).
Homes were confiscated, neighborhoods demolished, and people of all ethnicities were displaced.
The project failed and left a scar of destruction that went for miles.
That was decades ago, and much has been rebuilt: Roxbury Community College, a HUGE mosque, and so on, but us old people remember.
It had NOTHING to do with race and everything to do with corruption.