We made marriage in our image, now we make America in our image.
Posted on 09/15/2022 7:02:14 AM PDT by devane617
A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money Thursday, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway.
The $104.6 million is among $1.5 billion in transportation grants handed out to 26 projects nationwide thanks to increased funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.
It allows Michigan to move forward on its $270 million effort to transform the stretch in Detroit into a street-level boulevard, reconnecting surrounding neighborhoods and adding amenities, such as bike lanes. Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, two of the city's predominantly African American neighborhoods, were razed as part of the 1950s creation of an interstate highway system, displacing 100,000 Black residents and erecting a decades-long barrier between the downtown and communities to the east.
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This is what’s so infuriating. They pave a road in wonderful black, or if they fill with pea gravel, brown.
Then they take this horrible white and yellow paint and put it over the black or brown pavement.
This is obviously a message that Whites and Asians are superior, over the Black and Brown.
So obviously roads have to go. We would be better off without cars and trucks anyhow, because if we allow people to use them very soon the Earth will burst into a burning ball of fire.
It looks like it's in the vicinity of the US entrance to the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. Will tunnel users have to drive through dangerous neighborhoods to get to or exit from the tunnel?
I went through the tunnel when I was a kid but don't remember what the neighborhoods nearby looked like at that time (and besides it was after dark).
Where has the Secretary of Transportation Mayor Bootie-gig been during this nightmare train union strike threat? Still chestfeeding on his maternity leave?????????
Nobody lives in Detroit anymore.
And, after 60 years, the neighborhoods adjusted to the freeway.
Cant wait for Pete to run for president in 2024. I’ll need a good laugh
We made marriage in our image, now we make America in our image.
Reconnecting surrounding neighborhoods faster get a ways ensues.
Daley did the very same thing in Chicago in order to build the Chicago Circle Campus of the University of Illinois. Displaced thousands and shuttered businesses. Madam Mayor, "Tear Down That School!" Peety will give you money.
Below grade makes sense for sound damping and safety. (Crashes can only go so far before hitting dirt)
Detroit doesn’t get nearly as much snow as Buffalo.
Baltimore has a false start freeway that goes nowhere. A cop told me that he loves chases where the idiot goes there. The road has a particular bump that is guaranteed to cause a spin out at 80 mph or above.
They just roll behind and laugh.
Bike lanes through the hood?
That’ll work.......
Wonder if they will now tear out part of I-40 through Nashville Tenn as it went through a black neighborhood.
Meanwhile in Memphis, I-40 has never been complete as it would have gone through a black neighborhood. Once across the Mississippi River you have to cut north and around to reconnect with I-40. So they renamed the detour I-40.
That area of Detroit, which had already been receiving southern black migration for approx. 20+ years, was poor, had unpaved roads, and often lacked connection to sewers. Everyone, including the local blacks, viewed it, in present-day jargon, as in need of "resources."
So Progressives and social engineers of the day pushed their versions of "build back better" schemes. For them it was highways, and other "progressive government" facilities, to connect them to the "modern world."
Butt-plug has the same mindset, he's just typically re-setting and manufacturing history, and will wind up with the same consequences.
In other words, they will tear up the freeway and replace it with a street. I’m sure that will really help traffic flow. especially at rush hours. But at least the people who used to live there many years ago will somehow benefit, although just what good this will do is not specified.
ha!
375 million to be precise. By the time it’s done it will be a half a billion— for unnecessary rebuilding one mile of road leaving it less efficient than it is now.
The home OWNERS were paid——Not necessarily the occupants.
Didn’t they think they had it so good to have an Interstate running through their front yard?
SINCE WHEN do Interstates have bike lanes???
I’m sure bike lanes are just what the citizens demand
Hopefully murals to St. George and plenty of space for graffiti and tent cities.
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