Highway Removal

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intercomnut
Rice Park
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Highway Removal

Postby intercomnut » July 31st, 2019, 11:38 am

Can’t believe this isn’t its own topic yet!

Check out a great article about a highway removal project in Syracuse, New York. A great overview of racism’s role in building highways, and how tearing them down could repeat the same mistakes if it’s not done right:

https://jalopnik.com/the-highway-was-su ... 1836529628

Multimodal
US Bank Plaza
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Re: Highway Removal

Postby Multimodal » August 8th, 2019, 8:11 am

Sounds like a good case for Ayd Mill Road in St. Paul.

StoJa9

Re: Highway Removal

Postby StoJa9 » August 8th, 2019, 9:06 am

Jesus, people will just attach "racsim" to literally anything now. If we tear them down now we got the gentrification folks all up in a tizzy.

What a fucking bananas world we live in 2019.

bubzki2
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Re: Highway Removal

Postby bubzki2 » August 8th, 2019, 10:05 am

Jesus, people will just attach "racsim" to literally anything now. If we tear them down now we got the gentrification folks all up in a tizzy.

What a fucking bananas world we live in 2019.
Cool your jets, man. I don't even know what racsim is.

BoredAgain
Union Depot
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Re: Highway Removal

Postby BoredAgain » August 8th, 2019, 11:59 am

Jesus, people will just attach "racsim" to literally anything now. If we tear them down now we got the gentrification folks all up in a tizzy.

What a fucking bananas world we live in 2019.
Did you read the article? The actual information from the reporter had a lot of good context and discussion. It is not cut and dry and they make that clear.

Edit: They make clear that highway construction was VERY racist (most of the first half of the article), but highway removal is more complicated.
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amiller92
Wells Fargo Center
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Re: Highway Removal

Postby amiller92 » August 8th, 2019, 12:12 pm

Jesus, people will just attach "racsim" to literally anything now.
There's plenty of evidence that urban freeways were through black communities on purpose all across the country. How is that not racist?

Also, racism really is everywhere.


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