Pete Buttigieg Begins $1 Billion Pilot Plan to Ensure ‘Racial Equity’ in Roads

breitbart.com ^ | 6/29/2022 | Simon Kent

[rktman]

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday will launch a $1 billion pilot plan to address what he sees as cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by roads.

Buttigieg has previously declared “there is racism physically built” into U.S. infrastructure, promising to address it soon after taking office.

As Breitbart News reported, he argued that some highways and bridges across several cities were designed to divide communities by race.

“Well if you’re in Washington, I’m told that the history of that highway is one that was built at the expense of communities of color in the D.C. area,” he said. “There are stories and I think Philadelphia and Pittsburgh [and] in New York, Robert Moses famously saw through the construction of a lot of highways.”

“There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars,” he added.

Now he has moved to correct what he sees as a racial road system that is part of a broader systemic problem across the nation.

[rktman]

"Sectrans"(appropriate?) plans to ban blacktop/asphalt? When did he return from maternity leave? Hardly noticed the absence of stoopidness.

[SkyDancer]

So no more black topped roads? No white concrete roads?

[Empire_of_Liberty]

So blacks get wider lanes?

[FreedomPoster]

Insanity. Complete insanity.

[Gay State Conservative]

Rat Party Headquarters is determined to destroy the suburbs.This is part of their plan.

[Skywise]

Moron. Retard.

The damage is already done by the creation of the highways.

Even IF he destroys the current highway lines to “restore afro-centric neighborhoods” they’re not coming back.

You’d think somebody steeped in progressivism and always screaming “FORWARD COMMUNISM” would understand that concept.

But they never do. They can’t create - they can only revert and pervert.

[butlerweave]

Destroy perfectly good roads so he can hire a black owned company rebuild them , Buttplug is insane

[Red Badger]

These people are insane..........................

[ConservativeInPA]

Let me guess, I ain’t reading anything about equity, this means 50% of roads will be paved in asphalt and 50% paved with concrete.

[faithhopecharity]

Which end of him is the most dysfunctionally confused?

[plain talk]

“Under the program, $195 million in competitive grants is to be awarded over the next 12 months, of which $50 million will be devoted for communities to conduct planning studies.”

[1Old Pro]

what a kook. Meanwhile our commercial flights are a mess and our truckers can’t afford diesel. Major transportation crisis, I wonder who is the transportation secretary?

[NonValueAdded]

Big Dig 2.0? Has he factored in the disruption to these neighborhoods of color during the multi-year projects?

[EEGator]

Lanes are too skinny for ‘77 Coupe de Ville when you are drinking a 40 of Olde English and getting Blunted…

[Don Corleone]

So no more black topped roads? No white concrete roads?

No roads at all if Pistol Pete has his way.

[From The Deer Stand]

Next thing will be Pete getting rid of blacktop as it’s probably racist.

[dartuser]

“I see racism” ... perhaps Haley Joel Osment can star in this movie ... call it The Seventh Sense.

[jeffersondem]

First thing: rip the gates down on gated communities.

Or at least rip up and block any publicly funded road that leads to discriminatory gated communities.

This would be a good test of the commitment of limousine liberals.

[Texas resident]

Biden and all his cabinet heads are all figureheads.

obama holdovers are running the show.

[Yo-Yo]

The classic "racist road" story is about Robert Moses and the Parkway he built from New York City to the beaches in Long Island that deliberately had bridges that were too low for public busses to pass under, thus keeping "those people" from the city from taking the bus to the beach.