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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Now that it is likely blacks live on both sides of the highway, how will this heal anything? Will the torn down homes that made way for the interstate suddenly reappear?
Thought it might be.
And the people in these neighborhoods are going to complain they don’t have easy access to highways once they are dismantled.
They’ve got a plan to dig alohachunnels to the other islands and rename it to Interisland Five-zer0 Surfway. The loops will be called mooooshells.
The road is still there “dividing” the community.....
The road after being redone is still there.
You mean to tell me that blacks do NOT live on both sides of it now?
So is 3.
I-70 crosses white Indiana.
Someone did...
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