Pete Buttplug finds 'systemic racism' in roads. There are implications for Milwaukee.
...In what could be a first for any administration in this context, the Biden administration is using its federal powers to pause the Texas DOT plan to widen Interstate 45. The administration is doing this as a test to address what it calls a history of “government-driven racial inequalities.”
This comes after complaints from local activities during the federal DOT’s intervention period. The proposed plan, known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, is proposed to widen I-45 at three different sections.
The Texas DOT’s completed environmental review of the project in February found it would have a significant impact on the surrounding communities the highway currently runs through. It would reportedly displace a substantial number of black and Hispanic communities, including schools, places of worship, and more than 1,000 homes and businesses....
The State has been planning a widening of I-94 roughly from the Stadium west to 84th St. With Buttplug finding systemic racism wherever he looks, combined with Barrett's total opposition to the project, that project is not likely to happen.
Traffic congestion is ANTI-racist, see??
What was the racial distribution along I-94 West of County Stadium when the highway was built? Mostly Holsteins, I believe.
ReplyDeleteInteresting fact about the routing of the Interstate highway through Milwaukee. The routings followed WE's light rail system right-of-ways that had become underutilized with the introduction of rubber wheeled buses post-WWII. Cheap land and minimization of demolition of structures were the driving factors, not the ethnicity of the neighborhoods they split.
E. Michael Jones makes a good case that the highways in Chicago were strategically placed to break up ethnic neighborhoods that were strongly Catholic, like the one St. John Cantius is in. This doesn't sound like what's going on in this case, but this sort of thing does seem to happen.
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