$2.5 trillion infrastructure bill includes funds to destroy infrastructure

[rayg]

Biden?s $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill includes funds to destroy infrastructure
Because they go through black areas...

President Joe Biden?s proposed $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill includes funds to actually destroy infrastructure, according to reports.

The White House cited the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans and Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York, as two problematic highways going through black neighborhoods they would support destroying.

The White House cited the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans and Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York, as two problematic highways going through black neighborhoods they would support destroying.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...cist-highways/

[togor]

Freeways aren't like the great pyramids of Egypt. They have a service life, and when that limit is reached, a decision must be made. Maybe it's someone else's turn to get a freeway for awhile.

[rayg]

Apparently you didn't read the article as it said the reason was...

“Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources,” Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on social media in December, promising to focus energy on “righting these wrongs.”
The White House fact sheet plans $20 billion to “reconnect neighborhoods” suffering from current infrastructure and make sure all new projects “advance racial equity and environmental justice.”

[rayg]

Related to the subject.....

Less than 6% of the proposal goes to roads and bridges, critics say

Same old political BS..name something the money is for but spend half on other stuff
President Biden's $2 trillion spending plan, which is being promoted largely as a bill to address infrastructure, directs well under half of its total money to things traditionally defined as infrastructure, according to a Fox News analysis.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-spending-plan-billed-as-infrastructure-bill-spends-non-infrastructure

[togor]

Back in the day, nobody gave it a second thought when the commuter expressway between downtown and the 'burbs cut through an older, poorer neighborhood. Ever live next to a freeway?

I remember moving to the St. Paul area in the 1980's. The locals were fighting tooth and nail to keep 35E from reaching downtown from the south, because of all the land that got taken over plus the sight, sound, smell of all that traffic. They eventually lost, but as a consolation prize, the speed limit is kept low, if I remember correctly.

[rayg]

[QUOTE=togor;613904]Back in the day, nobody gave it a second thought when the commuter expressway between downtown and the 'burbs cut through an older, poorer neighborhood. Ever live next to a freeway?

They cut through all neighborhoods not just the poorer ones!!..

[lyman]

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Back in the day, nobody gave it a second thought when the commuter expressway between downtown and the 'burbs cut through an older, poorer neighborhood. Ever live next to a freeway?

They cut through all neighborhoods not just the poorer ones!!..

yup.

most of them in this town go thru high end areas,,,