A woman called for a highway's removal in a Black neighborhood. The White House singled it out in it

[demmiblue]

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Source: WaPo

A woman called for a highway’s removal in a Black neighborhood. The White House singled it out in its infrastructure plan.

Since she moved back home to Tremé almost a decade ago, Amy Stelly has waged a campaign for the removal of a highway that cuts through her New Orleans neighborhood.

She struggled to get support from local leaders. Neighbors considered the quest to be wishful thinking.

“Nobody thinks you can get rid of a highway,” she said.

On Wednesday, Stelly’s effort gained a considerable boost when the White House named the highway, the Claiborne Expressway, an example of a historic inequity that President Biden’s new infrastructure plan would seek to address through billions in new spending.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/highway-removal-infrastructure/2021/03/31/effd6a26-9234-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html

[Karadeniz]

1. Refreshing to see some humanity coming out of DC!

[Percy]

2. That's great news.

So many of our cities have been chopped up and neighborhoods ruined by highways! City planners back then (50s to 70s) had no regard for the cultural value of cities and suburbs were the way of the future.

I hope what she started catches on throughout the country. Now that would be a wonderful project to include int the infrastructure plan!

[ret5hd]

3. Highways were used to "moat" off pieces of cities from one another, limiting access, etc.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Yeah, makes for effective physical red-lines...

[alfredo]

9. That happened in Detroit. It decimated a vibrant black neighborhood

[lookyhereyou]

5. pollution

Just getting the pollution from unjust siting
of highways , power plants and refineries
out of the neighborhoods that couldn't
afford to fight them would fill an infrastructure program
and might get pollution / endowment question front and center.

[lookyhereyou]

6. MASS TRANSIT

2 birds 1 stone

[calimary]

8. That'd be good.

And we sure do need it. Jobs, y’know. Especially as we start to struggle out from under the pandemic. Soooooooo many people lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. originally freeways were meant for military movement , but many rich have used them to escape the

citys . first detroit got rid of the streetcars , then shot these god awful monstrosities through our communities with no regard ,well the rich didnt want them, now we are paying for it. glad to see transit revival in this country.

[DonViejo]

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