As a child, Anthony Foxx knew he couldn’t ride his bike far from home without being blocked by a freeway. By the time he became U.S. transportation secretary he understood why.
“We now know — overwhelmingly — that our urban freeways were almost always routed through low-income and minority neighborhoods, creating disconnections from opportunity that exist to this day,” [...] “I really believe that this is an issue that has been on the shelf collecting dust for a long time,” Foxx said.
— washingtonpost.com
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The highways system is another way we segregate and marginalize black communities. Minneapolis did a "great" job in this regard.
B3ta, will the new lrt lines help or hurt frogtown?
Marc, in all likelihood, it's going to hurt. All along University construction is booming. Once the soccer stadium is built, the coup de grace will have been complete.
No surprises I guess.
Nada.
Now, I like the LRT, but it's all about the next election, and the next scam; and it's difficult to get people in government to see what's happening, when the eye rolls start, after a community member starts off by say "gentrification".
When I was there, my experience was that there were folks in that city who were too busy trying to be their brand of "nice" to see the larger impact on other people. So I can totally image that eye roll, with a "what do you people want" running through their heads.
Right now I'm following the 11th street bridge park in dc. It provides "developing and maturing" neighborhoods on the north side of the Anacostia river access to the parks, but the actual Anacostia neighborhood- which is separated from the parks by a highway(infrastructure)- will still have limited access. Granted the group organizing the initiative is trying to engage neighborhoods on both sides of the river but the psychogeographic politics and development speculations are interesting and a product of how infrastructure was addressed.
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