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Buttigieg awards big fed grant to dismantle racist highway
yahoo ^ | 09/15/2022

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
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To: ridesthemiles

“SINCE WHEN do Interstates have bike lanes???”

Now that you mention it, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge [I-580] and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge [I-80] have bike lanes. But the bicycle access to the bridges is from side streets.


41 posted on 09/15/2022 8:04:18 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: cyclotic

If that’s the one I’m thinking of, it used to be a section of I-170, before it was decommissioned and re-signed as US 40. I-170 would have been a spur going from an also-non-existent section of I-70 into downtown.


42 posted on 09/15/2022 8:12:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: devane617

Racist highways? Is that when potholes are strategically placed on the highway for black drivers? If a white or Asian person loses a tire from it, it’s not racist?


43 posted on 09/15/2022 8:15:02 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Gaffer

Nobody lives there anymore. They no longer need an interstate. Last one out of Detroit, please turn off the lights.


44 posted on 09/15/2022 8:18:38 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: devane617

We demolished black neighborhoods in my hometown as Part of Urban Renewal...Definitely improved the neighborhood...the people were already on welfare. They went into better housing.


45 posted on 09/15/2022 8:20:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: devane617

New construction in the inner city. Can the graffiti be far behind?


46 posted on 09/15/2022 8:20:44 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine )
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To: Bonemaker

100,000 residents already on welfare.


47 posted on 09/15/2022 8:21:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: gunnut

Hawaii has Interstates, explain THAT to me!


48 posted on 09/15/2022 8:23:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cymbeline

Where Black Betty married Rock Bottom.


49 posted on 09/15/2022 8:24:54 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Bam ba Lam!


50 posted on 09/15/2022 8:25:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sacajaweau

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/08/09/detroit-marks-black-bottom-neighborhood-lost-when-375-built/5536936001/


51 posted on 09/15/2022 8:30:40 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: devane617


52 posted on 09/15/2022 8:37:39 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

“You see that place with the sign that says ‘Rib Tips’?”


53 posted on 09/15/2022 8:38:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bonemaker

Sounds like a “no go” zone to me!


54 posted on 09/15/2022 8:39:05 AM PDT by Stormy_MS1 (CHINA VIRUS!!)
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To: dfwgator

No. You have good eyes!


55 posted on 09/15/2022 8:40:05 AM PDT by plain talk
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Bike lanes, eh. Perhaps they can build a bike store right next to the book store.


56 posted on 09/15/2022 8:40:48 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: plain talk

“Hey kids, you noticing all this plight? This will just make us appreciate what we have.....*Gunshot*......Roll ‘em up!”


57 posted on 09/15/2022 8:41:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: devane617
"Black Bottom"

🤣
58 posted on 09/15/2022 8:50:06 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: dfwgator

Two explanations for Hawaiian interstate highways.

1) Graft and corruption.

2) Interstate highway system was initially sold as military logistics infrastructure. There is a need to shuttle military gear around Oahu.


59 posted on 09/15/2022 8:52:29 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Bikkuri

Baby Got Back!


60 posted on 09/15/2022 8:54:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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