Interstates destroying neighborhoods is a real thing—a brain child of LBJ and the Great Society.
“ Interstates destroying neighborhoods is a real thing…”
Although a lot of that was to put roads through areas of cheaper property to keep costs down. There are also lots of cases of farmers having their acreage split, or having access cut off because all the local roads got dead-ended at the interstate.
Racist Roads - Sounds like the subject of a family guy cutaway
Actually goes back to FDR, IIRC
Actually goes back beyond FDR. But Ike signed the major legislation that enabled it. Plenty of other stuff to blame LBJ for.
That’s true, but it was done 60 years ago, and won’t be undone now. The underpass thing only related to parkways, which were usually built by states before the IHS was created, not to the interstates. It was as much a class or an aesthetic thing as anything racial. This is an illustration of why we don’t really want Harvard/Oxford men running the country.