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Apr 7, 2021 · Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.
- Noel King
Oct 31, 2023 · Highways, in their inanimate state, cannot be racist. However, the forces that located them and the consequences of their placement are inextricably connected to race. Deborah Archer, a law ...
- Diane Jones Allen
- Reclaiming Land Above The Highway
- Turning The Highway Back Into A Boulevard
- Elevating The Highway and Building Public Space Beneath It
- Stopping New Highway Expansions That Repeat Past Mistakes
In Rondo, Minnesota transportation officials are considering ideas for upgrades to the aging highway, including a plan to bury it underneath a 22-acre land bridge topped with new development designed for community members. ReConnect Rondohopes to restore land that was taken away, and in doing so provide commercial, residential and open space for th...
In New Orleans, I-10 follows the route of Claiborne Avenue, the once-leafy corridor through the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. Completed in the late 1960s, the elevated highway displaced hundreds of homes, as well as businesses and oak trees that lined the boulevard. Conversations about revitalizing the thoroughfare beneath the Claiborne Expres...
In Overtown, the historic center of Black life in Miami, the construction of I-95 and I-395 destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses and nearly wiped out the neighborhood. Like Rondo, Black Bottom and other neighborhoods, Overtown was a self-sufficient place for Black Miamians to live, work, shop and dine. It even became known as the “Harlem of t...
Even as communities grapple with how to reverse the injustices created by highways, others are fighting plans to expand and build new ones that activists say will impose many of the same harms. A $7 billion plan in Houston would add 24 miles of freeway along I-45 as well as I-10 and I-610, and displace more than 1,300 homes, businesses, schools and...
Jun 10, 2020 · Understanding racism in transportation. June 10, 2020. Today around academia people are stopping their normal work to #ShutDownSTEM, take time to educate ourselves about systemic racism and anti-Blackness and develop detailed action plans to carry forward. There is a lot of discussion around the intersection of transportation and race, though ...
May 29, 2014 · There’s little doubt that some planners and engineers were cognizant of the racial implications of the freeway construction through America’s cities. Mohl noted that “one former federal highway official conceded in a 1972 interview (that) the urban interstates gave city officials ‘a good opportunity to get rid of the local n-----town.’”
Jun 22, 2021 · NPR: "A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways" — "In his $2 trillion plan to improve America's infrastructure, President Biden is promising to address the racism ingrained in ...
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Oct 20, 2021 · The 1956 federal highway act ran with this strategy, offering to paying 90 percent of the cost of states’ new roadways—with the caveat that they consent to build them through every major city ...
