Is there an attack on highways now? I’ve noticed several articles lately bemoaning freeways going through ‘disadvantaged’ neighborhoods - the same freeways that have been there for 60 years. I suspect a reparations for people who live under bridges plan is being hatched.
The road under discussion was built BEFORE THE PEOPLE IN THE ARTICLE WERE BORN. There’s every possibility that that community was not “Latino” prior to the road construction in 1964. Most of the current residents likely moved into that neighborhood to take advantage of the lowered housing & rental costs. They KNEW what they were getting into.
Highways have been attacked for some time.
I would've included this link in my earlier response if I'd seen it earlier. This recent article isn't about exactly the same thing as this thread, but it's about transportation in Denver. (I wasn't searching for a recent link but found this from someone else's site.)
But editor David Sachs’ story about Hancock’s remarks to a bicycling conference this month carried a hopeful headline: “It Sounds Like Hancock Is Serious About Prioritizing People Over Cars.”Last week, as part of a Downtown Denver Partnership breakfast panel on increasing mobility options, Sachs laid out one challenge for city leaders — while framing it in a way Hancock likely wouldn’t.
“It’s too easy to drive,” Sachs said. “It’s not enough to make transit better and biking better, which the city is very, very slowly doing. But they get it. We have to make driving harder — and that’s really hard to say, politically — but are we going to just do that after the traffic gets really, really bad?
Bikes first, not people!