Part of Biden's Infrastructure Plan Is to Literally Destroy Highways Already Built

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https://www.westernjournal.com/part-bidens-infrastructure-plan-literally-destroy-highways-already-built/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_content=2021-04-10&utm_campaign=topweekly&fbclid=IwAR0kMuMQ0686Dq0EkoIv2-IMML3KnC7S5gm3_SwHKxWvHgUQoHlv9tv9Qps

[ChumpDumper]

https://www.westernjournal.com/part-bidens-infrastructure-plan-literally-destroy-highways-already-built/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_content=2021-04-10&utm_campaign=topweekly&fbclid=IwAR0kMuMQ0686Dq0EkoIv2-IMML3KnC7S5gm3_SwHKxWvHgUQoHlv9tv9Qps

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[ducks]

Thank you that is the link !

[ducks]

Highways are racist now ask biden

[ChumpDumper]

Thank you that is the link !It's also for Biden's plan.:tu

[ChumpDumper]

Highways are racist now ask bidenSome have been for a long time.

[Winehole23]

https://www.westernjournal.com/part-bidens-infrastructure-plan-literally-destroy-highways-already-built/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_content=2021-04-10&utm_campaign=topweekly&fbclid=IwAR0kMuMQ0686Dq0EkoIv2-IMML3KnC7S5gm3_SwHKxWvHgUQoHlv9tv9Qps


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[ducks]

Some have been for a long time.

Yes they are black and white

[ChumpDumper]

Yes they are black and whiteWhich rich neighborhood was bulldozed for an interstate?

[ducks]

Which rich neighborhood was bulldozed for an interstate?

Being rich has nothing to do with color of skin
Many are rich that are black,white asian Hispanic
Just because you are poor....

[daboom1]

It's also for Biden's plan.:tu

beep boop

[ChumpDumper]

Being rich has nothing to do with color of skin
Many are rich that are black,white asian Hispanic
Just because you are poor....


beep boop

Which rich neighborhood was torn down for an interstate?

[ElNono]

beep boop

NPC line

[Spurtacular]

beep boop

900 DPH

[lefty]

Good

[CosmicCowboy]

Which rich neighborhood was bulldozed for an interstate?

McAllister Freeway here in SA. The Olmos Park people hated it and used a Conservation Society and Sierra Club lawsuit to stop it for years. Texas finally finished it without Federal funds...thats why it couldn't tie into loop 410 when it was built.

[spurraider21]

NPC line
He’s not even making a joke. That’s an authentic response from Qhrisbot

[Adam Lambert]

Here's how Woke Clarence Thomas weighed in on urban renewal in 2005.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyyGvGfWQAIGfPm?format=jpg&name=medium

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-108.ZD1.html

[ChumpDumper]

McAllister Freeway here in SA. The Olmos Park people hated it and used a Conservation Society and Sierra Club lawsuit to stop it for years. Texas finally finished it without Federal funds...thats why it couldn't tie into loop 410 when it was built.How many homes were bulldozed?

[Adam Lambert]

Small government conservatives defending the federal government for forcing people out of their homes in favor of a federal project is something I never thought I'd see, but then again it was just poor people.

[Winehole23]

How many homes were bulldozed?Brackenridge Golf Course got shorter. What was the name of that sandwich stand on the back nine?

Jo's maybe? Remember going there with my dad in the early 1970s.

[coyotes_geek]

The hubbub over this, in both directions, is way overblown. There's been a social justice component to every federal project through NEPA since the 90s. This is nothing new. Biden is trying to get wokeness warm-fuzzy bonus points for doing something that has been a federal priority for almost 30 years now, and republicans are getting upset over projects that they wouldn't have thought twice about if it were just called a major highway reconstruction or major realignment instead of using words that popped up on their anti-wokeness radar.

Oh, and yes it is undeniable fact that a bunch of interstates were deliberately routed through poor neighborhoods. Segregation was often a motive, sometimes it was simply going where property could be acquired the cheapest. It sucks to be poor.

[GAustex]

35 years in the business-not always but often the folks who get bought out for the road are HAPPY about it. Maybe those left nearby are not. Also nearby access has its benefits

[ElNono]

Well, Joe did say it... Build Back Better...

Gotta demolish before we can build back, tbh

[Winehole23]

there's moar to transportation than moar lanes and moar parking lots for more cars

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[Winehole23]

https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/2020-03-deconstruction-ahead-urban-highway-removal-changing-cities
https://gizmodo.com/6-freeway-removals-that-changed-their-cities-forever-1548314937

[ElNono]

Hopefully we're also demolishing Trump's failed wall too...

[RandomGuy]

Because "infrastructure" means paving over 40% of all the area of a city for roads so that cars can park idling for 4 hours per day of rush hour traffic.

:rolleyes the dumb shit keeps rolling in.

[Winehole23]

Hopefully we're also demolishing Trump's failed wall too...the wind and the rain are already taking care of that

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/PRC_195978052.jpg?quality=90&strip=all
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FZ9ATP2Nz4Y/maxresdefault.jpg
https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I5XUR3SDWAI6VGOHDX6UEQNC7Y.jpg

[Winehole23]

https://dallasnews.imgix.net/BORDER_FENCE_DOWN_39027759.JPG

[RandomGuy]

https://dallasnews.imgix.net/BORDER_FENCE_DOWN_39027759.JPG

:lol Another Trump boondoggle. Who would have seen THAT coming?


Other than his casino creditors that is.

or the suckers fleeced in the "university" scam...

or the.... etc.

[Ef-man]

Hopefully we're also demolishing Trump's failed wall too...

Only if Mexico pays for it again!

[Winehole23]

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[koriwhat]

the wind and the rain are already taking care of that

If wind and rain is code for Trump's opposition while in office then yes you're correct! :tu

[spurraider21]

If wind and rain is code for Trump's opposition while in office then yes you're correct! :tustill spending all day here stanning for the guy you pretended not to support?

[boutons_deux]

spending on transportation was always to enrich BigOil that never saw a proposed public transit system that it wouldn't try to block to keep people buying gas

70% of US oil goes to transport (ground and air)

[boutons_deux]

removing highways the bisect cities is already a trend, and the cities are greatly improved

Cities around the country explore removing elevated highways with federal funding

In cities around the country, residents are in various stages of working to

remove elevated or sunken highways (https://www.archpaper.com/tag/highways/) that seemed promising in the 1950s and 1960s

but are now considered by many to be planning blunders (https://www.archpaper.com/tag/urban-renewal/).

https://www.archpaper.com/2021/06/explore-removing-elevated-highways-with-federal-infrastructure-funds/

As seen with CRT, many highways have been located to isolate (or run through) poor (black, brown) sections of a city.

[koriwhat]

still spending all day here stanning for the guy you pretended not to support?

Sorry you can't accept the fact that he was in office recently and this wall went up during his time in office and was curtailed by his opposition the whole way... Who should I refer to when referencing the wall and "..." opposition?

It's so fucking retarded that mentioning Trump is somehow equated to being his fanboy of sorts. I mention him because he's integral to what we are discussing. Sorry if you have TDS and you try to make everything out to be about Trump himself; I am merely pointing out that he had opposition the whole way and you can't refute that whatsoever so you come crying to me about your false impression of who I am and who I support politically.

You want to know who I support politically? Anyone who has common sense, logic, and isn't trying to subvert our nation like your dude Biden in office right fucking now! If not agreeing with shit political kabuki like we have in the WH rn is fanboying for Trump then so be it!

[ChumpDumper]

Ask j:loley if he supports/supported Trump specifically.

[DMC]

Cool thing about those wall images - there aren't 10,000 people camping there.

[ChumpDumper]

DMC wants to nuke Nuevo Laredo.

[Winehole23]

More lanes = more congestion


City leaders in Texas, meanwhile, have also started to question the car-centric status quo. San Antonio planned to narrow a two-mile stretch of Broadway Avenue, a key thoroughfare, and add protected bike lanes, only for Texas DoT to overrule the city in January to halt it, citing fears over worsened traffic congestion. Ron Nirenberg, San Antonio’s mayor, accused the state of “1950s thinking” and a “religious fascination” with highway expansions.

“Five years ago the idea that there would be any elected officials publicly opposing a freeway widening would seem farfetched,” said Jay Crossley, executive director of Farm and City, a non-profit that works on Texas urban living issues. “A lot is changing in Texas.”

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e25b844c75e195243a749085849813b2bdaae61a/0_0_1400_933/master/1400.jpg?width=465&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&
But the federal government is still funneling $350bn to the states (https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/) for highways via the infrastructure bill, a situation that experts warn could wreck the US’ climate targets by spurring more car driving and planet-heating emissions. While some states, such as California, have started to recognize (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X18301720) studies (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X96000303) that show if you sow more asphalt you simply reap more traffic, Texas is pushing ahead with an unprecedented blitz of new road space for cars.

“This is a make-or-break moment. How the states use those highway funds will basically determine whether we meet our transportation emissions goals,” said Ben Holland, an urban design and land use expert at RMI, a clean energy non-profit.

Beyond the highway expansion in Houston, Texas is upsizing major roadways that carve through Austin and El Paso, as well as eliminating the planned bike lanes and pedestrian crossings in San Antonio. The frenzy of road building is championed (https://www.dot.state.tx.us/texasclearlanes/the-challenge.html) by Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, as a response to the state’s ballooning population, which grows by about 1,100 people a day, and driver frustration over gridlock.

“Highways are essentially fossil fuel infrastructure but we haven’t really heard about them in climate discussions until now,” Holland said. “It’s just been universally accepted that it’s too hard to get people out of their vehicles and provide alternatives. There is certainly a car culture here, but in large part that’s because it’s been mandated.”

In Texas, the mandate for the supremacy of roads comes via the state constitution, which requires that highways are funded to the exclusion of almost anything else that moves people around. About 97% of the $30bn a year the state gives (https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2020/07/30/txdot-asks-for-slim-cuts-to-budget-despite-grim-predictions/42607673/) its transportation department is spent on highways, leaving very little for buses, trains or bicycles. This focus is etched into the stone of the department’s headquarters, which is named the State Highway Building, a title carved above a triptych of native Americans on a horse, a pioneer wagon and a car.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/29/texas-highway-expansions-project-displacements-protests

[Winehole23]

every time they widened the Katy freeway it got more congested, but this time MOAR LANES will fix it!

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https://x.com/the_transit_guy/status/1847399833713119537

[Winehole23]

Houston is already facing a ~$300M structural deficit, highway expansion just makes it worse