>>sending tens of thousands more cars by their door.
So, let me get this straight. If they widen the highway, it will magically spawn more cars? And, of course, women and children hardest hit. Latina women and children!
Internet clickbait site headline writers make more sense than the NYT these days.
Denver definitely needs highway expansion, no doubt! BUT...widening isn’t the only option. They can build UP, too! Put through way on top, exits to business on bottom. And nobody looses a home or business, or it at least minimizes losses.
Considering how many miles are involved, demolishing so few homes and business seems to be a miracle.
If hillary won, I WAS going to expand some main arteries.
Same problems in the 5 NY boroughs.
Except graft is probably 10 times worse here, which makes funding huge projects very difficult.
53 years ago? Who writes this stuff??
Pardon?
They have not been able to adjust in over 50 years?
The entire place should be leveled and roads built over where the houses were.
Is there an attack on highways now? I’ve noticed several articles lately bemoaning freeways going through ‘disadvantaged’ neighborhoods - the same freeways that have been there for 60 years. I suspect a reparations for people who live under bridges plan is being hatched.
More media lies.
There is a highway now around Denver which bypasses the entire downtown.
The mistake they made was it is a fairly expensive toll road.
Oh and was a Democrat who had it built and decided it should be a toll road.
Let them pave their new freeways with Hash Oil...
what about by passes or loops? there has to be other possible ideas.
How about just telling the suburbanites to live closer to their jobs?
“Colorado is one of many states continuing to grapple with the legacy of the 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act, which laid the map for thousands of miles of interstates. It also sent many highways rolling through black, immigrant and low-income urban communities, saddling people from the Bronx to Los Angeles with pollution, disease and blight.”
I thought smallpox blankets was coming for a second there.
The people moved to those homes well after the highway was built and the future plans were in place. The air tests much cleaner in that area today than it did 40 years ago and it will test better with twenty thousand more cars.
Black neighborhood looking for even more freebies beyond what the project already has earmarked for them.
By the time the third lane is done commuters will be switching to personal flying vehicles.
The highway was not deliberately routed through an impoverished neighborhood. The neighborhood near the highway was less desirable, and therefore less expensive than other neighborhoods. Over the decades lower income people accumulated there.
If the highway had originally been routed through a ritzy neighborhood 60 years ago, it would be a slum today.
The NYTimes needs to get writers who understand economics. This is a completely natural phenomenon and not a plot against the poor.
Made my last trip ever through Denver two weeks ago on a Saturday. I’ll never go back. An absolutely miserable horrible place to drive. It is like all the people in Colorado live in a great strip center that runs from Fort Collins to Pueblo and they all live in the dirt in front of the mountains. What the hell will they do for water with all the growth? It reminded me of califorina.
And I'd bet a cookie these same people supported Obambas endless reckless chain immigration policies. The more the merrier right?
They need to slash an artery or two.
This obvious racial and social indignity needs to be counteracted... put up wind farms off of Martha’s Vineyard! Those white privileged bass turds!