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(Bloomberg) -- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday that his agency will use about $1 billion from President Joe Bidens public works legislation to remedy racial inequities in U.S. highway design, such as roads that were built to separate predominantly minority neighborhoods from White communities.
The program, called Reconnecting Communities, in some cases will tear down or rebuild highways and overpasses, he said. Federal officials will consider local desires as they identify projects, he said at a White House briefing.
Its going to vary by community and we have to listen to the community, Buttigieg said. Sometimes it really is the case that an overpass went in a certain way that is so harmful that its got to come down or maybe be put underground. Other times maybe its not that way. Maybe the really important thing is to connect across, to add rather than subtract.
Buttigieg described highways dividing neighborhoods and an underpass deliberately constructed too low for a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach in New York.
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CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Charleston S.C right now. I read an horrible article about a black neighborhood that is happening to right now.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)who was never elected or built a commercial empire, but was remembered as the most powerful Parks Commisioner in history. He held a lot of other titles, but that's what we remember him as.
He rebuilt NYC after the Depression and much of what is there is due to him, for better or worse.
The Long Island Parkway double dealing is in his Wiki, but far worse was the Cross Bronx Expressway which was technically brilliant but displaced hundreds of thousands and destroyed the burgeoning Bronx society and was the start of the Bronx as the ruination of North New York.
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)building the new stadium and moving the meat market, he was hardly alone. O`Mally pretty much led the list of hated New Yorkers at the time and even Nelson Rockefeller's attempt to bail him out had no effect when ticket sales were down 40% and the borough president of Brooklyn turned on him.
The Dodgers were a totally lost cause in the 50's.
lame54
(35,294 posts)Backlash is coming
Celerity
(43,415 posts)lame54
(35,294 posts)And the fact that something is finally going to be done about it
But it's coming
They are a party of professional whiners