Posted on 07/01/2022 9:36:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is on a mission. He’s looking for highways with a racist past and is aiming to “help reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects.” Buttigieg is examining interstate highways, built with federal dollars, “where a piece of infrastructure cuts off a neighborhood or a community because of how it was built,” said Buttigieg in a speech announcing the $1 billion “Reconnecting Communities” program.
“How it was built”? What does that mean? Does that statement refer to the racial makeup of businesses and residents? This is just more of the “disparate racial results” of government action, not because there was a racist intent behind it.
We’re told that these divisions deliberately targeted black neighborhoods because, well, racism, of course. States and communities will be able to “apply for the federal aid over five years to rectify harm caused by roadways that were built primarily through lower-income, Black communities after the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system.”
There are perhaps thousands of communities across the United States “harmed” by the building of the interstates. How many towns and cities that the Interstate Highway System bypassed withered and died on the vine because of an arbitrary decision by some soulless bureaucrat in Washington?
“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,” said Buttigieg, who was announcing the pilot program later Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama. He described Reconnecting Communities as a broad department “principle” — not just a program — to address the issue with many efforts underway.
“This is a forward-looking vision,” Buttigieg said.
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New projects could include rapid bus transit lines to link disadvantaged neighborhoods to jobs; caps built on top of highways featuring green spaces, bike lanes and pedestrian walkways to allow for safe crossings over the roadways; repurposing former rail lines; and partial removal of highways.
Following CW-II, we will need to think up a very, very special means of - rewarding - our leftist enemies. A long, and very slow reward. No happy ending.
Tearing out highways?
Causing havoc in the routing?
Moving people out of cars?
What’s really going on here?
Nope. It’s a union jobs project
God help us all of there are freeways that run through gay neighborhoods!
Funny he would deliver this speech in Birmingham.
Which is always under construction.
And run by democrats.
We are being governed by lunatics.
Fundamental transformation.
More bribes for the unions.
It's a Demonicrat (and RINOcrat) politician's kickback and slush fund project!
It’s a union jobs project
and a prog crony and family tax launder project.
Much like solandra and theranos and Oregon Obama care signup website.
This is prime RICO candidate imho.
Yes, run a highway through Bill & Hillary’s neighborhood next.
Buttgagger not worried about supply chains. He’s worried about being woke.
And this is how you rob the taxpayers 🤪
Using the power of government, Buttkrieg seeks to fix the racist problems of highways caused by government.
Okay Butthead, let me get this straight:
1. So-called "disadvantage neighborhoods" can't create their own jobs? They are all too stoopid?
2. Green spaces on top of highways? Reading too much sci-fi are you?
3. Most overpasses have pedestrian walkways.
4. What is "repurposing former rail lines". Got clue?
5. "Partial removal of highways"? Name them.
'Making America Great" is code for building the New World Order. Building the NWO calls for the complete destruction of the hated old order. And while NWO builders are busily destroying our Constitutional Republic it helps to stir up burning hatred and resentment toward everything and everyone that must be destroyed in receptive souls.
Will he rename any of them
...maybe all of them...the Hershey Hwy?
When a collectivist speaks of a big project or a fund, he’s really just moving cash to his buddies.
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